Search Engines, News, and Blogs
Search Engine Colossus and Search Engine Guide are comprehensive global master directories of local search engines for regional, country, or language-specific searches. Yahoo! provides country-specific, regional, and official government site search options. Google Translate is a useful option. Glearch allows you to search for language and country-specific content in "top results from Google, Yahoo and Bing as well as the most popular search engines for the selected country."
News Sources in English on Africa-- Africa Intelligence, Africa News, allAfrica, The Statesman (Ghana), Times of Nigeria (Nigeria), The Guardian (Nigeria), Mail and Guardian (South Africa), The Times (South Africa), Daily Monitor (Uganda), Times of Zambia (Zambia), Daily News (Tanzania), Daily Nation (Kenya), Reuters, Google News, BBC, CNN, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Inter Press Service, Global Post, The Guardian
Insightful Blogs on Africa-- Foreign
Policy Association, Africa is a Country, Africa
can... end Poverty (World Bank)
Other
Sources
• ACCORD-- "The African Centre for the
Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD) is an
international civil-society organisation working
throughout Africa to bring appropriate African solutions
to the challenges posed by conflict on our continent."
Publications online.
• Africa Desk--
Research guide portal to African studies, particularly in
the UK and Africa. Posts "directories of African and UK
scholars... in addition to information on African studies
centres in the UK and specialist Africanist libraries in
the UK and elsewhere in Europe... a central hub of
information on Africanist research carried out in the UK."
• Africa Governance, Monitoring and
Advocacy Project-- From the Open Society Institute,
"aims to monitor and promote compliance by African
states with the requirements of good governance,
democracy, human rights and the rule of law." Fine site
has large library and posts relevant news and "reports
identifying achievements and challenges in complying with
international standards relating to human rights, the rule
of law and accountable government, and suggesting means to
improve performance."
• Africa Institute of South Africa--
Research organization focusing on current affairs in
Africa, such as the African Union, NEPAD, and foreign
policy. Site has information about research programs,
library and documentation center (with a searchable
catalogue), new publications, and full text briefing
papers on peace and governance issues.
• Africa
Leadership
Forum-- Website of the Forum created by leading
African statespersons to improve leadership skills in
Africa, with news about Forum activities, digital library,
many quality online publications on major African issues,
and the magazine Africa Forum.
• Africa Map-- From Harvard
University, excellent interactive map with data layers
that "allows students, researchers, and the general public
to interact with the best available public data for
Africa, see the whole of Africa yet also zoom in to
particular places, accumulate both contemporary and
historical data supplied by researchers and make it
permanently accessible online, [and] work collaboratively
across disciplines and organizations with spatial
information about Africa in an online environment."
Provides partial interfacing for all other world areas.
• Africa Portal--
"Undertaking by the Centre for International Governance
Innovation, Makerere University, and the South
African Institute of International Affairs, the
Africa Portal offers open access to a suite of features
including an online library collection; a resource for
opinion and analysis; an experts directory; an
international events calendar; and a mobile technology
component—all aimed to equip users with research and
information on Africa’s current policy issues."
• Africa Power
and Politics-- "Identifying ways of exercising power
and doing politics that work for development...
questioning conventional ideas about what ‘good
governance’ should mean in the context of sub-Saharan
Africa." Funded by the UK Department for International
Development and Irish Aid. Posts news and studies.
• African Development Bank Group-- "Regional multilateral development finance institution established in 1964 and engaged in mobilising resources towards the economic and social progress of its Regional Member Countries... the premier financial development institution of Africa." Posts statistics, reports, and studies on African finance and development issues, including the major annuals "African Statistical Yearbook," "African Economic Outlook," and "African Development Report."
• African Economic Outlook-- Annual report and related data and analysis from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, "a reference report that covers recent economic, political and social developments on the continent and undertakes original, short-term projections."
• African Elections Project-- Provides comprehensive election-related information for several African countries, from the International Institute for ICT Journalism.
•
African
Journals Online-- "The world's largest and
pre-eminent collection of peer-reviewed, African-published
scholarly journals." Posts journal issues and articles.
• African
Union-- The international organization for all
African countries, with information about the AU and its
member countries.
• Afrika.no-- Comprehensive guide from
the Norwegian Council for Africa, with an annotated links
directory, news, background information, and an
interactive forum.
• Afrobarometer-- "Independent, nonpartisan research project that measures the social, political and economic atmosphere in Africa. Afrobarometer surveys are conducted in more than a dozen African countries and are repeated on a regular cycle. Because the instrument asks a standard set of questions, countries can be systematically compared." Online data analysis and downloadable data.
• Aluka-- "International,
collaborative initiative building an online digital
library of scholarly resources from and about Africa...
includes a wide variety of high-quality scholarly
materials contributed by Aluka’s partners, ranging from
archival documents, periodicals, books, reports,
manuscripts, and reference works, to three-dimensional
models, maps, oral histories, plant specimens,
photographs, and slides." Includes library tools.
• H-Africa Discussion Network--
"Member of H-Net's consortium of scholarly lists. H-Africa
encourages discussion of Africa's history, culture, and
African studies generally. Africanists of all disciplines
are encouraged to subscribe." Many online resources for
African studies.
• H-AfrPol Discussion Network-- Member
of H-Net's consortium of scholarly lists. "On-line
discussion forum, web site, and electronic service for
scholars, students, teachers, diplomats, members of the
international humanitarian community, and others
interested in the serious study of current African
politics."
• Ibrahim Index of African Governance-- From the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, data and reports on "the effective delivery of public goods and services to African citizens... the most comprehensive collection of quantitative data that provides an annual assessment of governance performance in every African country."
• Institute for Democracy in South Africa--
"Independent public interest organisation committed to
promoting sustainable democracy based on active
citizenship, democratic institutions, and social justice."
Posts papers, reports, newsletters, articles and more,
largely about South Africa.
• Integrated
Regional Information Network-- From the UN Office
for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, providing
searchable news items on crises in sub-Saharan Africa.
• Making Finance Work for
Africa-- "Knowledge hub for data, latest news,
links, and resources on African financial sectors... from
country financial sector profiles across the continent to
thematic snapshots, the website makes
available a vast amount of resources."
• Nordic Africa Institute-- "Center for research, documentation and information on modern Africa in the Nordic region. Based in Uppsala, Sweden, the Institute is dedicated to providing timely, critical and alternative research and analysis of Africa in the Nordic countries and to strengthen the co-operation between African and Nordic researchers." Note the Library's "A Guide to Africa on the Internet," among its other online resources.
• Observatoire de l’Afrique-- "Network of independent institutes and experts based in Europe and in Africa. It aims at encouraging discussion between African and European experts on African security and political issues." Posts studies on those topics.
• South African Institute
of International Affairs-- "Non-governmental
research institute focused on South Africa’s and Africa’s
international relations. We provide analysis, promote
dialogue and contribute to African policy making in a
dynamic global context." Posts
many policy studies and podcasts on the "external
engagement of South Africa and Africa with the rest of the
world."
• United Nations Economic Commission for
Africa-- News, information, many statistics, and
many online reports are available free in full-text from
this United Nations regional organization. Great source
for authoritative online economic information about
Africa.
• Virtual Library on Capacity Development-- From the African Capacity Building Foundation, many studies on socio-political and economic capabilities issues and policies in Africa, within the goal of "building sustainable human and institutional capacity for poverty reduction in Africa."
• World Bank Sub-Saharan Africa--
Papers, discussion notes, and reports on economic,
environmental, and social issues in Sub-Saharan Africa
today, overall and by country. Note the Statistics in Africa World Bank
page, "dedicated to gathering and presenting information
and resources related to statistics on Africa."
