Nno! E k'abo o! Akwaaba! You are welcome!
Dear Brothers and Sisters, dear Friends and Visitors, welcome to our new location at Geocities. The new URL of this website is: http://www.oocities.org/afripalava/AfricanPalava.html |
African Palava is a research tool for lecturers, students, brothers and sisters interested in African Literature and African Studies. It lists and comments on interesting websites under a wide range of categories:
• Africana • Arts and Cultures • Associations • Children (Pickin) • History • Internet • Journals • Literature • Newspapers and Magazines • Orature • Pidgin • Search Engines • Theory (Big Big Grammar) • Universities • Whiteness Studies • Women • Writers • About African Palava • Contact •
An A-Z of African Studies on the Internet - huge list of Africa-related links, though mostly without detailed information. <http://www.lib.msu.edu/limb/a-z/az.html>
Africa Over2U is a commercial site and has a short and somewhat haphazardly compiled linklist dealing mainly with aspects of the African diaspora. <http://www.over2u.com/links.htm>
Africa Resource Center is a commercial website offering pages on and links to African art, culture and creative expression. It hosts the journals West Africa Review, Ijele: Art eJournal of the African World, and JSAPS Journal for African Philosophy and Studies. <http://www.africaresource.com/index.htm>
African Links - on the website of Cora Agatucci's Culture(s) and Literature(s) of Africa Hum 211 Course (Central Oregon Community College); comprehensive list, covers many aspects of African Studies. <http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/links.htm>
Africana Studies Research Page is a private website dealing with African Studies from an Africentric perspective. <http://www.oocities.org/Athens/Olympus/8192/index.html>
GhanaLinkList - on J. Sittek's private website of Ghanaian Art and Handicrafts; provides links to Government and NGO associations and organisations. <http://home.t-online.de/home/j.sittek/link-gh2.htm>
GhanaWeb is a commercial site offering general information about Ghana. <http://www.ghanaweb.com>
Human Rights Nigeria provides links to human rights organisations, newspapers, and government reports. <http://humanrights.miningco.com/msub7.htm>
Index on Africa - compiled by the Norwegian Council for Africa. <http://www.africaindex.africainfo.no/pages/>
Motherlandnigeria is a private website by a Nigerian in the diaspora; gives an introduction (and some valuable in-depth information) about all things Nigerian, from geography to languages and the legal system. <http://www.motherlandnigeria.com>
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African Music Links - are provided by the Music Department of the University in Mainz. <http://www.uni-mainz.de/~ama/ama_links.html>
Annotated Guide to Resources on Art from Africa South of the Sahara - extensive link list by Karen Fung, University of Stanford. <http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/art.html>
Art and Life in Africa Online - searchable catalogue of the University of Iowa's Stanley Collection of African Art, as well as databases about specific countries, types of art, peoples, etc. <http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart>
ArtThrob - e-journal on contemporary art in South Africa. <http://artthrob.co.za/>
Ghanaian Art and Handicrafts - on a private website by J. Sittek. <http://home.t-online.de/home/j.sittek/seite0e.htm>
G.I. Jones Photographic Archive of Southeastern Nigerian Art and Culture - photographs of Ibibio, Igbo, Ijo and Ogoni speaking peoples from the 1930s. <http://www.siu.edu/~anthro/mccall/jones/>
Ijele Art eJournal - a new African art journal from the U.S., edited by Nkiru Nzegwu. <http://www.ijele.com/ijele/>
Journal of African Music and Popular Culture - published at the University in Mainz. <http://www.ntama.uni-mainz.de/>
Modern African Art - A Basic Reading List Compiled by Janet L. Stanley at the Smithsonian Institute. <http://www.sil.si.edu/SILPublications/ModernAfricanArt/modern-african-art.htm>
Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art - edited by Okwui Enwezor, Salah Hassan and Olu Oguibe at Cornell University. <http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/NKA/>
West African Art - by the Yoruba and Akan. <http://www.fa.indiana.edu/~conner/africart/home.html>
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ALA - African Literature Association, USA. <http://h-net2.msu.edu/~aflitweb/ala.html>
ASA - African Studies Association, at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA. <http://www.africanstudies.org>
ASNEL - Association for the Study of New Literatures in English; in German: GNEL Gesellschaft für die Neuen Englischsprachigen Literaturen; chairperson: Professor Sigrid Markmann, University of Osnabrueck. <http://www.lili.uni-osnabrueck.de/gnelintroeng.html>
Association of African Universities - Ghana. <http://www.zamnet.zm/zamnet/aau/aau.htm>
IAWE - International Association of World Englishes. <http://we.pdx.edu/~kim/index.html>
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Africa Access Review of Children's Materials - reviews of children's literature and criticism edited by Brenda Rudolph at the African Studies Department of the University of Pennsylvania. <http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Proceedings_Rev/afrik_access.html>
AfricaLife - German school project with information on Africa and activities for the classroom. In German. <http://www.africalife.de/>
African Children's Literature - introduction and links by Lillian Temu Osaki at the University of Florida Library. <http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/africana/children.htm>
Children's Literature Research Unit - at the University of South Africa. <http://www.unisa.ac.za/dept/clru/sachild.html>
Institute of the African Child - at Ohio University, part of the African Studies Department. <http://www.ohiou.edu/afrchild/>
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Africa - The Passing of the Golden Age - is a scholarly article by John Henrik Clarke in the Museum of the Masters at National Black United Front. <http://www.nbufront.org/html/MastersMuseums/JHClarke/ArticlesEssays/PassingOfGoldenAge.html>
CIA World Factbook - you'll know how to use it. <http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html>
Colonial History Course - by Timothy Burke, Department of Social Sciences at Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA. <http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/tburke1/8bsyllabus/Commentary.html>
Congo History and Analyses - part of a larger website about Congo by Michael Reimann, International Relations and Security Network at Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule, Zurich. <http://www.isn.ethz.ch/congo/analyses.htm>
Country Studies - at the Federal Research Division of U.S. Library of Congress, contains a wealth of information on history, geography, culture, society of a number of African countries, among them Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Somalia, South Africa, and Uganda. Check for date of publication and remember the source of information. <http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/>
Government of Uganda - official website with information about all aspects of the country. <http://www.uganda.co.ug/govern.index.htm>
Maps - a collection of historical maps of Africa at the Texas University Library. <http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/historical/history_africa.html>
Memory and History - site of an International Conference on "Remembering, Forgetting and Forgiving in the Life of the Nation and the Community", held in Cape Town in August 2000. Contains a number of drafts papers, e.g. "Memories and African Modes of Self-Writing" by Achille Mbembe, or "Tourism and the Memory of Africa" by Leslie Witz and Ciraj Rassool. <http://fl.ulaval.ca/celat/program.htm?12,13>
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African Internet Status - by Mike Jensen of the APC, the Association for Progressive Communication, an association of NGOs (such as Amnesty International, Oxfam and Greenpeace) devoted to linking up Third World Countries to the Internet, as of July 1999. <http://www3.wn.apc.org/africa/users.htm>
Connectivity and the Fate of the Unconnected - critical essay by Nigerian artist Olu Oguibe. <http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/co/6551/1.html>
Dritte Welt und der Aufbruch in das Informationszeitalter - diploma thesis by Gabriele Otterstetter at TU Berlin (1998) with chapters on connectivity in Africa and a discussion about the usefulness of Internet access in Third World countries. <http://www.tu-berlin.de/fb2/as3/as3w/dipl_ott/dip_inh.htm>
Internet and Computing in Africa South of the Sahara - annotated guide to online resources by Karen Fung, University of Stanford. <http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/elecnet.html>
Internet fuer die Dritte Welt - article about chances and threats of the Internet with regard to the Third World by Uwe Afermann, University of Osnabrueck. <http://rz.uni-osnabrueck.de/Dokumentation/Lokale_Kopien/Internet_Und_Dritte_Welt/forumEB.html>
Kabissa - provides space on the Internet for the African non-profit sector, such as NGOs, women's groups, human rights groups, etc. It publishes a weekly newsletter available through e-mail. <http://www.kabissa.org/>
Nationalism in a Virtual Space - essay by Misty L. Bastian, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA in WAR. <http://www.westafricareview.com/war/vol1.1/bastian.html>
O Brave New World - essay by Maryse Condé, in RAL. <http://iupjournals.org/ral/ral29-3.html>
Wiring African Universities Proves a Formidable Challenge - article by Andrea Useem in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Tanzania, 1999. <http://www.avu.org/uf/tanzania.htm>
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African Studies Quarterly - interdisciplinary e-journal published at the Center for African Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville. <http://web.africa.ufl.edu/asq/index.htm>
Africultures - site for a French print-journal on African arts, literature, cinema, music, etc. You can have a free condensed English version sent to you by e-mail every month. <http://www.africultures.com/>
Agenda - South African feminist journal. Though accessible only on subscription, one can get a monthly factsheet on workshops, conferences, etc. <http://www.agenda.org.za/>
Alternation - critical journal about Southern African Literature and Languages at University of Durban-Westville, South Africa, editor Johannes Smit. <http://singh.reshma.tripod.com/alternation/index.htm>
ArtThrob - e-journal on contemporary art in South Africa. <http://artthrob.co.za/>
Commonwealth Essays and Studies - official journal of the SEPC, published by the 'Image/Texte/Langue' Research Centre at University of Bourgogne. <http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/ITL/cwt.htm>
EESE - Erfurt Electronic Studies in English, with articles on English language and literature, both traditional and postcolonial. <http://www.ph-erfurt.de/~neumann/eese/eese.html>
Ijele Art eJournal - a new African art journal from the U.S., edited by Nkiru Nzegwu. <http://www.ijele.com/ijele/>
Internet Journal of African Studies - online journal published at the Department of Social and Economic Studies, University of Bradford, UK. <http://brad.ac.uk/research/ijas/>
Isibongo - The World Wide Poetry Web at University of Cape Town, South Africa. <http://www.uct.ac.za/projects/poetry/isibongo/isibongo.htm>
Journal of African Music and Popular Culture - published at the University in Mainz. <http://www.ntama.uni-mainz.de/>
Journal of African Travel Writing - semi-annual print journal with few online articles sponsored by the Institute of African American Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A free JATW electronic newsletter is available. <http://www.unc.edu/~ottotwo/>
Jouvert Journal of Postcolonial Studies - published by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences of North Carolina State University. <http://152.1.96.5/jouvert/index.htm>
JPCL Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages - edited by Glenn Gilbert, Southern Illinois University. <http://www.siu.edu/departments/cola/ling/index.htm>
List of African Journals - with links, at H-Net Africa. <http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~africa/toc/index.html>
List of Journals from/about Africa South of the Sahara - by Karen Fung at Stanford University, annotated list of links to diverse websites. <http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/journal.html>
Literary Digest - New Online Publication of New African Writing, from Lagos, Nigeria, so far with few works of doubtful literary value but continue looking. <http://www.literary-digest.com/>
Mots Pluriels - electronic journal edited by Dr. Jean-Marie Volet, University of Western Australia, in English and French. <http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP197index.html>
Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art - edited by Okwui Enwezor (who will be the director of the next documenta in Kassel!), Salah Hassan and Olu Oguibe at Cornell University. <http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/NKA/>
RAL Research in African Literatures - published by Indiana University Press, edited by Abiola Irele. Tables of content only. <http://iupjournals.org/ral/raeditors.htm>
SAROB - archive of the Southern African Review of Books. <http://www.uni-ulm.de/~rturrell/archive.html>
Voices - review journal of African literature by the graduate students of the Department of African Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Table of content and abstracts of some of the articles online. <http://african.lss.wisc.edu/all/voices/>
WAR West Africa Review - e-journal published by the Africa Resource Centre, founded and edited by Nkiru Nzegwu. <http://www.westafricareview.com/war/>
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African Literature Links - by Karen Fung at Stanford University, rich list of links to diverse websites. <http://www.sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/lit.html>
African Literature on Compton's Encyclopedia - article covering both oral and written traditions in indigenous and colonial languages. <http://www.optonline.com/comptons/ceo/00076_A.html>
African Writers: Voices of Change - is a website at the Africana Collection, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, containing articles on individual authors as well as general topics such as African Languages, Children's Literature or Film. <http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/africana/writers.htm>
Afrikanische SchriftstellerInnen - new and still growing private website on African writers writing in English, French, Portuguese and other languages by Winfried Fiedler with biographies, pictures, links, and German bibliographies. In German. <http://www.lilac-media.de/afri-lit/>
Bibliography of Anglophone Women Writers in Africa - at the University of Western Australia. Comprehensive, includes biographical information. Check also the Writers Section on this page. <http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/FEMECalireEN.html>
The Bibliography of Criticism of South African Literature in English - by Barbara Richter and Roy Muller, Dept. of English, University of the Orange Free State, South Africa. <http://www.uovs.ac.za/engl/bibliog/index.htm>
The Electronic African Bookworm - part of Hans Zell Publishing Consultants, with links to information on African publishing, booktrade, libraries, resources for African writers, donor agencies etc. <http://www.hanszell.co.uk>
The Imperial Archive (Nigeria) - part of the Imperial Archive, and its only African section, by MA students of the School of English at Queen's University of Belfast. <http://www.qub.ac.uk/english/imperial/nigeria/bib1.htm>
Kenya Books - a list of books about Kenya, mostly light reading and travel books. <http://www-2.roughguides.com/travel/kenya/kenya_bks.html>
Online Literary Criticism Collection - of the Internet Public Library allows you to browse by author, title, literary period or nationality. So far it has entries only about Chinua Achebe, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Buchi Emecheta, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head and Olive Schreiner. <http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/>
Post-Colonial News and Literary Studies - website at the University of Bourgogne informing about conferences, new publications, postcolonial journals and internet sites. <http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/ITL/postcol.htm>
The Postcolonial and Postimperial Web - continuously growing website by Professor George P. Landow at Brown University to which students and lecturers contribute, contains a section about Africa, as well as about postcolonial theory. <http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/misc/africov.html>
The Postcolonial Studies Website - ongoing project of the staff and students of the English Department, University of Emory, maintained by Deepika Bahri. <http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri>
Surviving the Present, Winning the Future - article about the African novel and short story genres by Ada U. Azodo in Mots Pluriels. <htthP://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP999aua.html>
For individual authors please check the Writers Section on this page.
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Africa News on the WorldWideWeb - Online News. <http://www.africanews.org/>
Daily Graphic - daily newspaper published in Ghana. <http://www.graphic.com.gh/>
The Ghanaian Chronicle - daily newspaper published in Ghana. <http://www.ghanaian-chronicle.com/>
Ghanaian Times - daily newspaper published in Ghana. <http://www.gtimes.com.gh/>
The Guardian - daily newspaper published in Nigeria. <http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/>
The Herald - daily newspaper in Zimbabwe, controlled by government. <http://www.zimpapers.co.zw/>
The Independent - daily newspaper published in Ghana. <http://www.africaonline.com.gh/independent/>
Post Express - daily newspaper published in Nigeria. <http://www.postexpresswired.com/>
Vanguard - daily newspaper published in Nigeria. <http://www.vanguardngr.com/>
The Zimbabwe Mirror - weekly newspaper in Zimbabwe. <http://www.africaonline.co.zw/mirror/>
Zimbabwe Independent - weekly newspaper in Zimbabwe. <http://www.samara.co.zw/zimin/>
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African Culture and Aesthetics - by Malaika Mutere, in the African Odyssee Interactive of The Kennedy Center. <http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/aoi/resources/hg/aesthetics.html>
African Mythology and Africa's Political Impasse - an article by Nigerian scholar Isidore Ikpewho about the African heroic epic, published in RAL. <http://iupjournals.org/ral/ral29-1.html>
Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts - folktales from all over the world, edited and/or translated by D.L. Ashliman, University of Pittsburgh. You can search by country or theme. <http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts1.htm>
The Interface of Orality and Literacy in Zimbabwean Literature - an article by Emmanuel Mudhiwa Chiwome, published by RAL. <http://iupjournals.org/ral/ral29-2.html>
Storytelling in Igboland - a section of the website of Cora Agatucci's Culture(s) and Literature(s) of Africa Hum 211 Course (Central Oregon Community College). <http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/afrstory.htm>
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Forms of English in Nigeria - University of Osnabrueck course on varieties of English and Nigerian Pidgin, by Dominique Bediako. <http://members.aol.com/AfriPalava2/Pidgin.html>
IAWE - International Association of World Englishes. <http://we.pdx.edu/~kim/index.html>
JPCL Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages - edited by Glenn Gilbert, Southern Illinois University. <http://www.siu.edu/departments/cola/ling/index.htm>
Glossary of Linguistic Terms - referring to the study of Pidgin and Creole languages, part of JPCL. <http://www.siu.edu/departments/cola/ling/glsintro.htm>
Language in Postcolonial Studies - an article by Jennifer Margulis and Peter Nowadoski, Emory University. <http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Language.html>
The Linguist List - of Eastern Michigan and Wayne State Universities has material on Pidgins. <http://linguistlist.org/>
On-line Dictionaries - a meta link list leading to on-line dictionaries, language courses and grammars of more than 200 languages, including Afrikaans, Igbo, Pidgin, Wolof and other languages spoken in Africa. <http://www.yourdictionary.com/>
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Orientation Africa - Hongkong based search engine for Africa. <http://af.orientation.com/>
WoYaa! - UK based search engine and Internet portal for Africa. Direct access from here: <http://www.woyaa.com/>
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Bibliography of Feminist Criticism - in French and English of African Literatures by Sharon Verba at the University of Indiana. <http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/bib/verba/bib-4.html>
The Postcolonial and Postimperial Web - has a section on post-colonial theory. More information on the Postcolonial and Postimperial Web above. <http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/misc/africov.html>
Some Issues in Postcolonial Theory - an article by Professor John Lye, part of his English course on Contemporary Literary Theory, at Brock University. <http://brocku.ca/english/courses/4F70/postcol.htm>
Theorists, Critics, Terms and Issues - part of The Postcolonial Studies Website, an ongoing project of the staff and students of the English Department, University of Emory, maintained by Deepika Bahri. <http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Contents.html>
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African Virtual University - World Bank project in co-operation with University of Massachussetts, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Harvard Business School Publishing, et al. <http://www.avu.org>
Angola: University of Angola - in Portuguese. <http://www.uan.ao/>
Botswana: University of Botswana <http://www.ub.bw/>
Ghana: University of Ghana - Legon. <http://www.ug.edu.gh/>
Ivory Coast: Université Nationale de Cote d'Ivoire <http://www.ci.refer.org/edu/sup/uni/abi/accueil.htm>
Mozambique: University of Eduardo Mondlane <http://www.uem.mz/>
Namibia: University of Namibia <http://www.unam.na/>
Nigeria: University of Ibadan <http://www.ui.edu.ng/> - University of Jos <http://intlinet.lib.uiowa.edu/unijos/index.htm>
Senegal: L'Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar <http://www.ucad.sn/>
South Africa: Rhodes University <http://www.ru.ac.za/> - University of Durban-Westville <http://www.udw.ac.za/> - University of Fort Hare <http://www.ufh.ac.za/> - University of Natal <http://www.und.ac.za/> - University of Orange Free State <http://www.uovs.ac.za/> - University of the North <http://www.und.ac.za/und> - University of Port Elizabeth <http://www.upe.ac.za/> - University of Pretoria <http://www.up.ac.za/> - University of South Africa <http://www.unisa.ac.za/> - University of the Witwatersrand <http://www.wits.ac.za/wits/wits1.html>
Tanzania: University of Dar es Salaam <http://www.udsm.ac.tz/>
Uganda: Makerere University <http://www.makerere.ac.ug/>
Zambia: University of Zambia <http://www.unza.zam/>
Zimbabwe: University of Zimbabwe <http://www.uz.ac.zw/>
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Whiteness Studies Library - an annotated bibliography of books dealing with African-(American)-European relations. <http://euroamerican.org/library/SubCat.htm>
Photography and Colonial Vision - an essay by Paul Landau in the Africa Forum about the relationship between visual images and colonialism, part of a forthcoming book. <http://h-net2.msu.edu/~africa/africaforum/Landau.html>
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AAWS - Association of African Women Scholars. <http://www.iupui.edu/~aaws/>
African Gender Institute - based at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Publishes an online newsletter and has bibliographies, links to other gender-related websites, etc. <http://www.uct.ac.za/org/agi>
Annotated Guide to Internet Resources on Women in Africa - by Karen Fung, University of Stanford. <http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/women.html>
Centre for Gender Studies - based at the University of Natal, Durban and Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Links to women and gender-related resources, to the discussion list GENNET, etc. <http://www.unp.ac.za/UNPDepartments/politics/gender/gender.htm>
Feminism in Africa - a bibliography of feminism in Africa, including specific countries, on the Feminist Theory Website hosted by the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture at Virginia Tech University. <http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/afgen.html>
Feminism in Islamic Africa - article by Marian Aguiar at africana.com. <http://www.africana.com/tt_028.htm>
Isis-WICCE - Isis-Women's International Cross Cultural Exchange is a women's resource centre which "gathers, documents, produces and disseminates feminist and gender-related information" as well as "facilitates communication and networking among women" from all parts of the world, but placing special emphasis on Africa. <http://www.isis.or.ug/>
Jenda - Journal on Culture and African Women Studies, first issue now online. <http://www.africaresource.com/jenda/index.htm>
Not either an Experimental Doll: The Making of the South African Heroine - article by Elizabeth Lawson about feminism and revolutionary politics in Olive Schreiner, Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer et al. in SPAN (Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies), Number 36, 1993. <http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/litserv/SPAN/36/Lawson.html>
OWWA - Organization of Women Writers of Africa. Founded in 1991 by Jayne Cortez and Ama Ata Aidoo, based in New York. <http://www.owwa.org/>
U.N.WomenWatch - United Nations website with information on women worldwide, with a section on Africa. <http://www.un.org/womenwatch/africa.htm>
WAR Vol. 2.1, 2000 - special issue of West Africa Review on women and gender in Africa. <http://www.westafricareview.com/war/vol2.1/2.1war>
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This category is a very broad one. It includes writers born in Africa, regardless of their colour, ethnic origin, and current place of residence, and non-African writers who have lived in Africa for a (substantial) period of time, or travelled there, and have written about Africa.
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• Achebe • Aidoo • Alkali • Awoonor • Bennett • Boyd • Cary • Chinodya • Conrad • Dangarembga • Emecheta • Farah • Fela • Foden • Gordimer • Head • Krog • Lessing • Magona • Mollel • Ngugi • Nwapa • Oguibe • Ogundipe-Leslie • Okri • Onwueme • Osofisan • Richburg • Saadawi • Saro-Wiwa • Schreiner • Soyinka • Tutuola • Ulasi • Vera •
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Chinua Achebe - biography and discussion of literary and critical works in the Hasbiniz Web Library. <http://infoco.net/hasbiniz/fiction/general_fiction/achebe_/index.htm>
Chinua Achebe Overview - on the Postcolonial Web of George P. Landow. <http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/achebe/achebeov.html>
Chronicler of Historical Change in Africa - article by Wolfgang Klooss. <http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/EdRes/Colleges/ARHU/Depts/CompLit/cmltgrad/JSchaub/courses.html/CMLT270SU98/readings/Klooss.html>
Corruption as a Consequence of Colonialism - article about The African Trilogy by Katharine Slattery in the Imperial Archive. <http://www.qub.ac.uk/english/imperial/nigeria/corrupt.htm>
Crisis of Cultural Memory in Things Fall Apart - article by F. Abiola Irele in African Studies Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 3. <http://web.africa.ufl.edu/asq/v4/v4i3a1.htm>
IPL Critical and Biographical Sites - in the Online Literary Criticism Collection of the Internet Public Library. <>
Language of the Colonizer - article by Katharine Slattery in the Imperial Archive. <>
Things Fall Apart Links and Resources - from a literature course at the University of Pennsylvania. <http://www.ipl.org/cgi-bin/ref/litcrit/litcrit.out.pl?au=ach-255>
Things Fall Apart Review - by Chris Conte, Utah State University for H-AfrTeach. <http://www.unibas.ch/afrika/rev.acheb.html>
Things Fall Apart Study Guide - by Paul Brians, Department of English, Washington State University. <http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/anglophone/achebe.html>
Women in Achebe's World - article by R.U. Mezu at Womanist Theory and Research 1995. <http://www.uga.edu/~womanist/1995/mezu.html>
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Aidoo at Afrikanische SchriftstellerInnen - private website on African writers by Winfried Fiedler with biographies, links, and German bibliographies. <http://www.lilac-media.de/afri-lit/autor/aidoo.htm>
Bibliography - compiled by Shanon Verba at the University of Indiana. <http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/bib/verba/bib-1.html>
Biography - at Africana Collection, George A. Smathers Library, University of Florida. <http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/africana/aidoo.htm>
Biography, Bibliography and Links - at University of Western Australia. <http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/AidooEN.html>
Materials on Aidoo - on the Postcolonial Web of George P. Landow. <http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/aidoo/>
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Alkali at Afrikanische SchriftstellerInnen - private website on African writers by Winfried Fiedler with biographies, links, and German bibliographies. <http://www.lilac-media.de/afri-lit/autor/alkali.htm>
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Awoonor at Afrikanische SchriftstellerInnen - private website on African writers by Winfried Fiedler with biographies, links, and German bibliographies. <http://www.lilac-media.de/afri-lit/autor/awoonor.htm>
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Review of The Catastrophist - at The Complete Review with links to other reviews, an interview in the Irish Post, and to other novels of interest. <http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/bennettr/catast.htm>
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A Good Man in Africa: Film Review - by Roger Ebert, on a private website. <http://www.oocities.org/Hollywood/Set/3172/goodman.htm>
Writers reviewed - at Irelandseye.com, a weekly webzine. <http://www.littleprints.free-online.co.uk/pubs/sr203/writers.htm>
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Bibliography of Criticism of South African Literature in English - maintained by the Department of English at the University of the Orange Free State, South Africa. <http://www.uovs.ac.za/arts/engl/bibliog/C/CARY2.htm>
Biography - at Irelandseye.com, a weekly webzine. <http://www.irelandseye.com/aarticles/history/people/writers/carey.shtm>
Colonial Administrators in Colonial Fiction - article by Richard Bleakley in the Imperial Archive. <http://www.qub.ac.uk/english/imperial/nigeria/coloadm.htm>
European Administrators in Nigeria - article by Richard Bleakley in the Imperial Archive. <http://www.qub.ac.uk/english/imperial/nigeria/europadm.htm>
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After Independence: Shimmer Chinodya's Dew in the Morning - article on the Postcolonial Web of George P. Landow. <http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/zimbabwe/chinodya/rz4.html>
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Bradley: Africa and Africans in Conrad's Heart of Darkness - a Lawrence University Freshman Studies Lecture by Candice Bradley, Associate Professor of Anthropology. <http://www.lawrence.edu/fac/bradleyc/heart.html>
Conrad and Racism - by Matt Bradley, student's project at the University of Texas, Austin. <http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~benjamin/316kfall/316kunit3/studentprojects/conrad/racism.html>
Conrad Links - at University of Texas, Austin. <http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~contests/conrad/CONRADaddlink.htm>
Dintenfass: Heart of Darkness Lecture - a Lawrence University Freshman Studies Lecture by Mark Dintenfass, Professor of English. <http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~csicseri/dintenfass.htm>
Heart of Darkness: It's all very clear - The Samuel Neis Center for Literate Witticism in Cyberspace, Student Home Page, Department of Electrical Engineering, Michigan Technological University. <http://stuweb.ee.mtu.edu/~scneis/conrad/hrtdrk/hrtdrk.htm>
Review of Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost - at The Complete Review with links to other reviews and novels of interest. <http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/hochscha/kingleo.htm>
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Bibliography - compiled by Shanon Verba at the University of Indiana. <http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/bib/verba/bib-1.html>
Biography and Resources - at The Postcolonial Studies Website, English Department, University of Emory. <http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Dangar.html>
Dangarembga: Nervous Conditions - a section of the website of Cora Agatucci's Culture(s) and Literature(s) of Africa Hum 211 Course (Central Oregon Community College). <http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/dangarembga.htm>
"'Of Mimicry and Woman': Hysteria and Anticolonial Feminism in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions" - article by Michelle Vizzard in SPAN (Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies), No. 36, 1993. <http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/litserv/SPAN/36/Vizzard.html>
Review of Nervous Conditions - by Treva Broughton, Southern African Review of Books, Issue 5, October/November 1988. <http://www.uni-ulm.de/~rturrell/antho1html/broughton.html>
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Bibliography - compiled by Shanon Verba at the University of Indiana. <http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/bib/verba/bib-1.html>
Biography and Resources - at The Postcolonial Studies Website, English Department, University of Emory. <http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Emech.html>
Biography, Bibliography and Links - at the University of Western Australia. <http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/EmechetaEN.html>
"Doughty Slave-Girls and Slavish Career-Girls: Representations of the West African (Ibo) Female in Selected Works of Emecheta and Achebe" - article by Cynthia vanden Driesen in SPAN (Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies), No. 36, 1993. <http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu/au/ReadingRoom/litserv/SPAN/36/Driesen.html>
Joys of Motherhood - article at the Department of Medicine and Literary Studies at New York University. <http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/emecheta244-des-.html>
The Joys of Motherhood Study Guide - by Paul Brians, Department of English, Washington State University. <http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/anglophone/emecheta.html>
"'Just' an Igbo Woman" - interview with Buchi Emecheta by Julie Homes in The Voice, July 9, 1996. <http://emeagwali.com/nigeria/biography/buchi-emecheta-voice-09jul96.html>
Materials on Emecheta - on the Postcolonial Web of George P. Landow. <http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/nigeria/emecheta/>
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The Nuruddin Farah Page - with biography, bibliography, quotations, quotes, and an introduction to Farah's novel Sweet and Sour Milk (1979), as well as links to other websites. <http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/cingal/farah.html>
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Fela and his Wives - article by Derek Stanovski, Appalachian State University, at Jouvert. <http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/v2i1/stan.htm>
Fela's Dead - by Zane Phipps, George Mason University, with links to other websites. <http://mason.gmu.edu/~zphipps/fela.html>
Special Issue Journal of African Music and Popular Culture - with contributions from German and Nigerian experts on the occasion of Fela's death. <http://ntama.uni-mainz.de/>
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William Boyd on Foden's The Last King of Scotland - at the Literary Review, edited by Auberon Waugh. <http://www.litrev.dircon.co.uk/199803/Boyd_on_Foden.html>
The Last King of Scotland: Review - at The Complete Review with links to other reviews and novels of interest. <http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/fodeng/lastking.htm>
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Bibliography - compiled by Shanon Verba at the University of Indiana. <http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/bib/verba/bib-2.html>
Biography, Bibliography and Links - at the University of Western Australia. <http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/GordimerEN.html>
Gordimer at IPL - in the Online Literary Criticism Collection of the Internet Public Library. <http://www.ipl.org/cgi-bin/ref/litcrit/litcrit.out.pl?au=gor-276>
"Not Either an Experimental Doll: The Making of a South African Heroine" - article by Elizabeth Lawson in SPAN (Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies), No. 36, 1993. <http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/litserv/SPAN/36/Lawson.html>
Reviews - at Isibongo. <http://www.uct.ac.za/projects/poetry/isibongo/vol1-1/gordimer.htm>
Selected Stories: Study Guide - by Paul Brians, Department of English, Washington State University. <http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/anglophone/gordimer.html>
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Bibliography - compiled by Shanon Verba at the University of Indiana. <http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/bib/verba/bib-2.html>
Bibliography - compiled at the University of Orange Free State, South Africa. <http://www.uovs.ac.za/engl/bibliog/H/HEAD1.htm>
Biography and Resources - at The Postcolonial Studies Website, English Department, University of Emory. <http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Head.html>
Biography, Bibliography and Links - at the University of Western Australia. <http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/HeadEN.html>
"Impact Lost in Easy Laughs" - article on the theatre adaptation of Bessie Head's Maru, by David Le Page, Weekly Mail &Guardian, April 26, 1996. <http://www.sn.apc.org/wmail/issues/960426/ARTS42.html>
On the Bessie Head Trail - conference report by Stephen Gray about a conference on Bessie Head in Botswana, June 17-18, 1998, from the electronic Mail & Guardian, July 20, 1998. <http://www.mg.co.za/mg/books/9807/980720-bessie.html>
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"From a 'Culture of Shame' to a 'Circle of Guilt' - Review of Country of My Skull by Fiona Ross in Southern African Review of Books, June 1998. <http://www.uni-ulm.de/~rturrell/sarobnewhtml/ross.html>
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Biography, Bibliography and Links - at the University of Western Australia. <http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/LessingEN.html>
Doris Lessing Retrospective - sometimes called "the ultimate Doris Lessing page" (?). <http://lessing.redmood.com//>
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To My Children's Children - a classroom reading of Magona's autobriography. <http://athena.english.vt.edu/~carlisle/Postcolonial/Magona.html>
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Bio-bibliography - at the African Children's Literature site by Lillian Temu Osaki at the University of Florida Library. <http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/africana/mollel.htm>
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Biography and Resources - at The Postcolonial Studies Website, English Department, University of Emory. <http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Ngugi.html>
"Europhonism, Universities, and the Magic Fountain: The Future of African Literature and Scholarship" - Ashby Lecture given at Clare Hall, Cambridge, May 1999, by Ngugi, published in Research in African Literatures, Vol. 31, No. 1. <http://iupjournals.org/ral/ral31-1.html>
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Bibliography - compiled by Shanon Verba at the University of Indiana. <http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/bib/verba/bib-2.html>
Biography and Resources - at The Postcolonial Studies Website, English Department, University of Emory. <http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Nwapa.html>
Biography, Bibliography and Links - at the University of Western Australia. <http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/LessingEN.html>
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The Olu Oguibe Homepage - by the Nigerian artist and poet. <http://camwood.org/index.html>
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Biography, Bibliography and Links - at the University of Western Australia. <http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/OgundipeEN.html>
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The Ben Okri Page - by Robert Bennett, University of California, Santa Barbara, with biography, bibliographic and web resources. <http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/%7Erbb0/academic/projects/okri/okri.html>
Ein nigerianischer Schriftsteller in London - article by Florian Köhler in the Journal of African Music and Popular Culture. <http://ntama.uni-mainz.de/~ntama/reviews/okri/index.html>
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Biography, Bibliography and Links - at University of Western Australia. <http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/OnwuemeEN.html>
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Femi Osofisan Overview - article on the Postcolonial Web of George P. Landow. <http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/osofisan/osofisanov.html>
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Africa Without Despair - New York Times Book Review of Karl Maier's Into the House of the Ancestors: Inside the New Africa, in comparison with Richburg's Out of America, by Howard W. French. <http://idcs0100.lib.iup.edu/~tconelly/Africa/Reading/AfricaWithoutDespair.htm>
.African Expectations: Reaction - reader reactions to Keith Richburg's article and book in the Washington Post. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/richburg/reaction.htm>
Continental Divide: American in Africa - article by Keith Richburg in the Washington Post. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/richburg/richbrg1.htm>
Out of America: Review by Arch Puddington - in Commentary Magazine. <http://www.commentarymagazine.com/9705/books.html>
Out of America: Review by Bob Press - in the JATW. <http://www.unc.edu/~ottotwo/Pressreview.html>
Out of America: Review by Wolf Roder - in the JATW. <http://www.unc.edu/~ottotwo/Roderreview.html>
Out of America: Review in Salon Newsreal - review and interview by Jonathan Broder. <http://www.salon.com/feb97/news/news2970219.html>
Seeing the Mirage: African American Narrative and Change - paper presented by Lynda Hill at the Sixth Annual African Studies Consortium Workshop 1998. <http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Workshop/linda98.html>
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Biography and Resources - at The Postcolonial Studies Website, English Department, University of Emory. <http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Saadawi.html>
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Postcolonial Saro-Wiwa - article on the Postcolonial Web of George P. Landow. <http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/sarowiwa/sarowiwaov.html>
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Biography and Resources - at The Postcolonial Studies Website, English Department, University of Emory. <http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Schreiner.html>
Biography, Bibliography and Links - at the University of Western Australia. <http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/SchreinerEN.html>
Schreiner at IPL - in the Online Literary Criticism Collection of the Internet Public Library. <http://www.ipl.org/cgi-bin/ref/litcrit/litcrit.out.pl?au=sch-132>
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Biography - at the New York Writers Institute. <http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/soyinka.html>
Interview - in the Free Inquiry of the Council of Secular Humanism. <http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/soyinka_17_4.html>
Soyinka at Emory - article about Soyinka's stay at Emory. <http://www.cc.emory.edu/EMORY_MAGAZINE/spring97/wole.html>
Study Guide to Three Dramas - by Paul Brians, Department of English, Washington State University. <http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/anglophone/soyinka.html>
Wole Soyinka Overview - article on the Postcolonial Web of George P. Landow. <http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/soyinka/soyinkaov.html>
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Amos Tutuola 1920 - 1997 - article by Bronagh Clarke in the Imperial Archive. <http://www.qub.ac.uk/english/imperial/nigeria/amos.htm>
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Biography, Bibliography and Links - at the University of Western Australia. <http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/UlasiEN.html>
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Biography, Bibliography and Links - at the University of Western Australia. <http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/VeraEN.html>
Materials on Vera - on the Postcolonial Web of George P. Landow. <http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/zimbabwe/vera/>
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About African Palava
This page was created by Dr. Dominique Bediako. I am a member of the Association for the Study of New English Literatures (ASNEL), and taught in the English Department of the University of Osnabrueck until recently. I am now a lecturer at the Institute of Languages, Makerere University, Uganda. If you are interested in my courses, please click here. <http://www.oocities.org/afripalava/index.html>
This website is part of a project about African Literature and the Internet, which was sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). I hope to make African Palava useful for all of us interested in African literature and African studies in general. Therefore, I will be happy to receive your suggestions for new links, additional categories, improved designing, and so on. Please do contact me!
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