UCLA Library Information Resources on African Languages
CULTURAL RESOURCES/COLLECTIONS IN LOS ANGELES AREA AND BEYOND
Language instructors of African languages at UCLA can organize visits to the following places for their students to relate a new language to its embedded culture:
Museums, Libraries & Related Institutions
African & African Diaspora Art Collection -- UCLA Fowler Museum
African Art Collection -- Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) [see also the collection's highlights]
Africa: One Continent. Many Worlds -- Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County -- for educators, students and other museum goers to know more about Africa, its peoples and the Continent's rich natural resources.
Los Angeles Public Library collections including books, film videos and music CDs that can be checked out free of charge by library card holders (comprises African language instructional materials)
Tazzla Institute for Cultural Diversity, Burbank, CA
Regular & Upcoming Cultural Events
African Marketplace, Los Angeles
Los Angeles Amazigh Film Festival
Los Angeles Drum and Dance Events (Africanbeat) -- provides lists of events related to African music (drum and dance) in southern California.
Pan African Film and Arts Festival (an annual event in Los Angeles)
Both independent and chain book stores around Los Angeles area hold materials on African languages for browsing or purchasing (search by language names).
Barnes & Noble Booksellers -- Westside Pavillion, Los Angeles
Borders Store -- Westwood, Los Angeles
Dutton's Brentwood Books -- Los Angeles
Vroman's Bookstore -- Pasadena
Ethiopian Restaurant Listings & Food Guide
Merkato Ethiopian Restaurant-Market
Obichi Enterprises -- Authentic African Foods & Products
Rahel Ethiopian Veggie Cuisine
Cultural Resources/Collections Beyond Los Angeles Area
Africa Center, Boulder, Colorado
Africa Centre, Stellenbosch-Sount Africa
Africa Styles & Accessories, London, ON-Canada
Africa: The Art of a Continent -- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
African Art -- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA ( includes an interactive tour)
African Collection, Mingei International Museum, San Diego CA
African Odyssey Interactive -- The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC
The Arts of Africa -- Brooklyn Museum, NY
Baltimore Museum of Art’s Collection of African Art
Door to Africa: African Ethnographic Crafts
Hamill Gallery of African Art, Boston MA
The Museum of African Culture, Portland, Maine
Museums in Africa -- from the International Council of African Museums
National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Nigeria
National Museum of African Art -- Smithsonian Institution
The National Museums & Monuments of Zimbabwe
Pan African Arts Society, Denver Colorado
Permanent Exhibits, Bowers Museum of Art, Santa Ana CA
Worcester African Cultural Center, Worcester, MA
Works of Art: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas -- Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
The World Language Documentation Center
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[Compiled by Janet Kaaya, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA-Young Research Library. Please send her your comments/suggestions/additions]