Some great Africa and (heavily) South Africa teaching and research tools:
Africa Focus: The Sights & Sounds of a Continent
Africa Through a Lens – ”A collection of thousands of UK Colonial Office images of Africa. The images are as rich and varied as the continent itself, charting more than 100 years of African history from the 1860s through to the 1960s.”
African Activist Archive Project
Button from the African Activist Archive Project
African Language Materials Archive
African Oral Narratives Project
African National Congress Archives
British Anti-Apartheid Movement
Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement
Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire
Community Video Education Trust
CRL Cooperative Africana Microfilm Project
Cuba and Southern Africa: Wilson Center
Digital Innovation South Africa (DISA) – Sometimes slow, but worth the wait!
Digital Karnak – The colossal site of Karnak is one of the largest temple complexes in the world, with an incredibly rich architectural, ritual, religious, economic, social and political history. The Amun-Ra precinct, which includes an astonishing number of individual temples, shrines and processional ways, stands as a micro-cosmos of ancient Egypt.
Foreign Relations of the US – Africa
Gandhi-Luthuli Documentation Centre -This resource contains lists of Indian indentured laborers. To access the lists, click on the “Indians in SA” tab on left side of webpage. Then click the “Find your ROOTS/Ancestry” link (third on the list).
Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs: 1860-1960
Inanda Seminary Oral History Project
Legacies of British Slave-Ownership
Manuscripts and Archives Digital Images Database – Yale
Mapping African Exploration – Maps and images of explorers, 1541-1880
National Library of South Africa Digital Collections (Newspapers, political and war posters, and more)
Nelson Mandela Centre for Memory Digital Archives
Nordic Documentation on the Liberation Struggle in Southern Africa
Fanti Woman, 1910, from NYPL Africana Collection
Padraig O’Malley’s Oral Interviews
Slave Biographies: Atlantic Database Network
South African History Archive UDF Posters
SAHA UDF Poster AL2446_0182
South African Nuclear History: Wilson Center
Traces of Truth – Documents Pertaining to SA’s Truth & Reconciliation Commission
Zapiro cartoon features on Wits’ Traces of Truth page
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
Truth and Reconciliation Commission SABC Special Report Series
Truth and Reconciliation Commission website
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