UCLA Library Information Resources on African Languages
NEWS/ARTICLES/REPORTS ON AFRICAN LANGUAGES & STUDIES INFORMATION RESOURCES
New Encyclopedia of Africa (now available)
Wakar Harshen Hausa (A Song of Praise to Hausa),
by Alhaji Ibrahim Yaro,
Translated by Edward L. Powe.
African Studies Publications, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2007)
International Education and Foreign Languages: Keys to Securing America's Future / Committee to Review the Title VI and Fulbright-Hays International Education Programs ; Mary Ellen O'Connell and Janet L. Norwood, editors. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2007. ISBN 9780309106948. (now available)
Igbo Course Download Store (Also available on CD-ROM)
Timbuktu Hopes Ancient Texts Spark a Revival -- A New York Times article by By Lydia Polgreen and a blog (see also the Iconic Book Blog from the Iconic Books Project)
The Libraries of Timbuktu for the Preservation & Promotion of African Literary Heritage -- from CDE, University of Aslo, Norway
A visit to the Timbuktu Libraries -- from CDE, University of Aslo, Norway
Wonders of the African World -- -- by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., (PBS documentaries)
Searching Timbuktu Slavery Manuscripts -- from CRL
On African Studies Digital Repositories
Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent -- University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
Building an Open Access African Studies Repository Using Web 2.0 Principles -- Anna Winterbottom & James North. First Monday, volume 12, number 4 (April 2007).
Building an Online Library on African Studies -- under development
Online African Studies Thesaurus -- African Studies Centre, Leiden, (the Netherlands) Library
Building a Digital Library of Scholarly Resources from and about Africa (by Aluka)
Directory of Open Access Repositories; Africa -- University of Nottingham, UK
Depictions of Ethiopian History on Display at the Loyola University Museum of Art
Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art -- Fowler Museum at UCLA (check also audio on NPR and current exhibitions at Fowler)
Philadelphia Museum Presents 'Ten Tapestries'
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars: Film and Concert -- from UCLALive
Meditations on African Art: Pattern -- Baltimore Museum of Art
African Arts: 2007/2008 Calendar -- from CNET Networks, Inc.
Early Sources on African Ideophones -- by J.B. Schlegel
Los Angeles First Amazigh Film Festival
Proposed changes to Rudger's Africana Studies Prompt Concerns about Department's Future -- from Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Sociolingo's Africa: News, images, comment on Africa
African Languages: Web-blogs -- from WorldPressCom
Indiana University African Language Club
Sociolingo's African Linguistics Web-blog -- from WorldPressCom
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[Compiled by Janet Kaaya, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA-Young Research Library. Please send her your comments/suggestions/additions]