• Mali


• Burkina Faso


• Mauritania


• Nigeria


• Liberia


• Ivory Coast


• Ghana


• Benin


• Niger


• Senegal


• Cameroon


• Congo (ex Zaire)


• Egypt


• Algeria


• Sahara


• History


• Files in PDF format / Documents au format PDF


• Antique maps of Africa


• Photos & Postcards at the turn of the 20th century


• African Rock Art / Archaeology


• African earthenware


• African & Western Beads


• African Textiles


• Traditional & Modern Art


• Photography


• Culture


• Books


• Music


• PaleoAnthropology / Human Origins


• General


• Asia

  

• Guinna Expeditions - Tour Operator : contact Lesserou Dolo


• Ethnologue.com - map of Mali


• CIA - The World Factbook - Mali


• Stephan Lucas : maps of Mali/cartes du Mali


• Famine Early Warning Systems Network - Mali


• Afribone.com - Mali


• Maliweb : arts, culture, économie, politique, la presse, etc...


• Wikipédia - Portail du Mali


• SIL International : Mandé Language Family of West Africa
• Siris Image Gallery - Eliot Elisofon Photo Archives : type Mali in search box


INLAND NIGER DELTA / DELTA INTERIEUR DU NIGER


• The Metropolitan Museum of Art : Inland Niger Delta


• Afriterra : a cartographic study of Lake Debo based on ancient maps dating from 1000 to1900 AD


• Projet Hombori : Biodiversity monitoring of Mount Hombori and its region


DJENNE


• Susan & Roderick McIntosh : Jenne-Jeno, an ancient African city


• Susan & Roderick McIntosh : Jenne-Jeno, une ancienne cité africaine


• Susan & Roderick McIntosh : Research in West Africa


• Association pour la promotion du patrimoine culturel de Djenne


• Foto8 - The New Magazine of Photojournalism - Djenne - la fête de crépissage


TIMBUKTU / TOMBOUCTOU


• TimbuktuFoundation.Org : Educational Foundation


• Timbuktu Libraries Project


• Ancient Manuscripts from the Desert Libraries of Timbuktu


• The Jews of Africa : Timbuktu


• The Library of Congress - Islamic Manuscripts from Mali


• Center for Research Libraries (CRL) - Slavery & Manumission Manuscripts of Timbuktu


DOGON


• Hotel Campement Giru Yam - Sangha : contact Ana Dolo tel +223-244-2014 or mobile +223-625-3903


• The University of Texas at Austin : map of Dogon country


• CNRS Vidéothèque Photothèque - Consultation du catalogue des films et vidéos :
  Possibilité de commander les documentaires sur le Pays Dogon de Jean Rouch!
  Documentaries by Jean Rouch on Dogon Country available for purchase!


• Ethnographic Atlas : the Dogon


• PBS Online : Listen to Dogon music extracts of the Kanaga, Sirige & Satimbe mask songs!


• Inagina - The Dogon blacksmiths


• Jacky Bouju : Nommo, le génie d'eau - paroles Dogon, Tellem & Nongom


• Agropolis Museum : Éric Jolly - Bière de mil & société dogon


• TheFreeDictionary : Polly Richards (African Arts Magazine) - Masques Dogons in a changing world


• European Cultural Heritage Online (ECHO) : Dogon Virtual Archive of the LEIDEN National Museum of Ethnology


• LEIDEN National Museum of Ethnology : Signs of the Times/Times of the Signs - Rock art & Circumcision in Songo


• Non European Components of European Patrimony (NECEP) : Dogon


• Alain Gallay : Un chemin vers l'anthropologie


• Université de Genève : Peuplement humain et paléoenvironnement en Afrique de l'Ouest /
                                       Human population and paleoenvironment in West Africa


• Journal of African Archaeology


• SLSA - Fondation Suisse-Liechtenstein pour les recherches archéologiques à l'étranger


• Université de Fribourg : Recherches archéométriques sur la production de fer ancienne chez les Dogon


• Sébastien Perret : the ancient iron metallurgy of the Dogon plateau in Mali


• Les classiques des sciences sociales : "Dieu d'eau, Entretiens avec Ogotemmêli" de Marcel Griaule. (text available in PDF format)


• Ethnologue.com - 10 Dogon languages


• SIL International : a sociolinguistic survey of the Dogon language area


• Comparative lexicon of Dogon languages by Jeffrey Heath


• IRD Institut de recherche pour le développement : Anne Doquet - La mise en scène d'une Afrique "authentique"


• Siris Image Gallery - Eliot Elisofon Photo Archives : type Dogon in search box


• Armelle Hausser : Le vécu des femmes en pays dogon


• Clio en Afrique
• La culture dogon : Jacky Bouju - de l'ethnologie coloniale à l'anthropologie réciproque contemporaine
• Les dogons, le pouvoir et la chefferie
• Centre d'études et de recherches comparatives en ethnologie
  
  ARCHITECTURE
  
  
• Archnet
• James Morris - Architects of Earth


• Sebastian Schutyser - Mud Mosques of Mali (more than 2000 photos !)


• Sebastian Schutyser - Mud Mosques of Mali (the black and white prints)


• Djenne Conservation


• Djingareyber Mosque restoration


• Great Mosque of Niono
• Geoffroy Magnan : Achitecture vernaculaire au Mali


• MuslimHeritage.com - West African mosque architecture


• IslamOnline.net - West African Mosque Architecture: A Brief Introduction By Kafia Cantone



HISTORY / HISTOIRE


• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Empires of the Western Sudan
• The Bamana Segou State
• NYPL Digital Gallery : Africana & Black History
• Mali
• Djenne
• Timbuktu
• Eugène Mage au Soudan (Mali 1863-1866)


• Fonds Emile-Louis ABBAT sur le Soudan Français


• Clio en Afrique : Christina Gerhäusser - La représentation des griots dans la littérature coloniale française (1815-1916)


• Recherches Africaines : Annales de la Faculté des lettres, langues, arts et sciences humaines de Bamako


MISCELLANOUS / DIVERS


• Visible Earth : satellite images of Mali


• HumanSpaceFlight : satellite image of Dogon country & the Inner Niger Delta


• Mr. Birago Diop's photos of Mali


• Photos : Mali August 2001


• Africa Online - photos of Mali


• Arcticphoto.co.uk : Dogon country


• Soninkara : Le site web consacré à la promotion de la langue et de la culture Soninké

  

• Vacances OK Raids (Travel Agency)


• Ethnologue.com - map of Burkina Faso


• CIA - The World Factbook - Burkina Faso


• Famine Early Warning Systems Network - Burkina Faso


• Sedelan : abcBurkina


• Herkenhoff Tribal Art (art of the Lobi)


• Ministère de la Culture
• Musée des Civilisations du Sud-Ouest - Gaoua


• Découverte du Burkina Faso : Le Pays Senoufo


• Découverte du Burkina Faso : Le Pays Kassena


• Découverte du Burkina Faso : Le Pays Lobi


• La poterie au Burkina Faso


• La statuaire du Burkina Faso


• Du minerai de fer à la “daba” - La production ancestrale du fer au Burkina Faso
• University of Iowa - Art and Life in Africa Project (Christopher D. Roy)
• Photographs of Burkina Faso, 1970-2004
  
• The Art of Burkina Faso
  
• Faces of Burkina Faso


• Burkina towns & landscape


• photos of Sal Mossi, a Songhay village in Burkina Faso


• Masks of Burkina Faso


• Mossi Masks


• Pottery in Burkina Faso


• Mask Performance in the Bwa town of Dossi


• Translation of "Kunst und Religion der Lobi" by Piet Meyer - Zürich 1981


• Articles, Books, Photographs, Music, DVD's, Streaming Video/QuickTime Player
• Burkina4ever - photos of Tiébélé


• Fespaco : Le Festival Panafricain du Cinéma et de la Télévision de Ouagadougou


• IRD Audiovisuel - Les mémoires de Binduté Da

  

• Bibliothèque numérique sur la Mauritanie

  

• Ethnologue.com - map of Nigeria


• CIA - The World Factbook - Nigeria


• Mr. G.I. Jones - photographic archive of Southeastern Nigerian Art & Culture


• Andrew Apter - Yoruba Ritual Archive (African Studies Center)


• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Nok Culture


• Ife Culture


• MasterHand - Individuality and Creativity among Yoruba Sculptors
• Siris Image Gallery - Eliot Elisofon Photo Archives : type Nigeria in search box

  

• Ethnologue.com - map of Liberia


• CIA - The World Factbook - Liberia


• Liberia : Past & Present of Africa's Oldest Republic


• Siris Image Gallery - Eliot Elisofon Photo Archives : type Liberia in search box

  

• Ethnologue.com - map of Ivory Coast


• CIA - The World Factbook - Ivory Coast


• Wobébli : le village Wé virtuel


• Siris Image Gallery - Eliot Elisofon Photo Archives : type Côte d'Ivoire in search box

  

• Ethnologue.com - map of Ghana


• CIA - The World Factbook - Ghana


• David Lacina's photos of Lobi country in Ghana


• Art & Life in Africa - Articles, Books, Photographs, Music, DVD's, Streaming Video/QuickTime Player


• Jorge Tutor Travel Photography : Ghana


• Siris Image Gallery - Eliot Elisofon Photo Archives : type Ghana in search box


• The Basel Mission Picture Archive : thousands of historical pictures taken in Ghana from late 1850ties to 1945

  

• Ethnologue.com - map of Benin


• CIA - The World Factbook - Benin


• Le Tata Somba ou l'habitation à étage dans l'Atacora


• Le Siris Image Gallery - Eliot Elisofon Photo Archives : type Benin in search box

  

• Ethnologue.com - map of Niger


• CIA - The World Factbook - Niger


• Famine Early Warning Systems Network - Niger


• Siris Image Gallery - Eliot Elisofon Photo Archives : type Niger in search box

  

• Ethnologue.com - map of Senegal


• CIA - The World Factbook - Senegal


• David Sapir's photographs of the Kujamaat Joola


• Visitez le Senegal - albums photos

  

• Ethnologue.com - map of Cameroon


• CIA - The World Factbook - Cameroon


• Mandara Mountains Homepage


• Lebialem.Info : Bangwa, Mok and Mundani peoples of Cameroon


• The Basel Mission Picture Archive : thousands of historical pictures taken in Cameroon from 1890ties to 1945


• Siris Image Gallery - Eliot Elisofon Photo Archives : type Cameroon in search box

  

• Ethnologue.com - maps of Congo (ex Zaire)


• CIA - The World Factbook - Congo (ex Zaire)


• The American Museum Congo Expedition 1909-1915


• Siris Image Gallery - Eliot Elisofon Photo Archives : type Congo in search box


• aaoarts.com : "Voyage au Congo" d'André Gide - photographies de Marc Allegret prises en 1925-1926

  

• CIA - The World Factbook - Egypt


• The Metropolitan Museum of Art : The Art of Ancient Egypt


• Fliegel Jezerniczky Expeditions : The Libyan Desert Home Page (many many photos !)


• Egyptian monuments


• The Oriental Institute Museum : photographic archives


• Ancient Africa's Black Kingdoms


• Siris Image Gallery - Eliot Elisofon Photo Archives : type Egypt in search box


• Joseph Regenstein Library : Middle East Photograph Archive


• The Ancient Egypt Site : more than 3.000 years of Ancient Egyptian history


• Egypt Index by Mary Ann Sullivan (lots of photos)


• The Petrie Museum : Digital Egypt for Universities

  

• CIA - The World Factbook - Algeria


• Ethnologue.com - map of Algeria


• Les 12 cahiers du Centenaire de l'Algérie - Page personnelle de Aj.Garcia

  

• The 153 Club - For Sahara Desert Travellers


• Fliegel Jezerniczky Expeditions : The Libyan Desert Home Page (many many photos !)

  

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Timeline of Art History : a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world


• Histoire de l’Afrique de l'Ouest : une sélection d’études historiques à découvrir


• PBS Online : Explore the wonders of the African world


• Washington State University - Civilizations in Africa


• Gallica - Voyages en Afrique : L'Afrique à travers les récits des voyageurs


• The African Book Bank Online (Abbol) : scholarly publications on sub-Saharan Africa from 1870 to 1960 / publications scientifiques de 1870 à 1960 en relation avec l'Afrique subsaharienne


• Persée - the website for scientific journals in social and human sciences


• The Jews of Africa


• The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record


• NYPL Digital Gallery : Africana & Black History


• webAfriqa Internet Traiblazer for Africa

  

• SIL International : a sociolinguistic survey of the Dogon language area


• IRD (Institut de recherche pour le développement) : Rechercher des documents centrés sur les relations entre
  l'homme et son environnement - anthropologie, sociologie, archéologie, géographie, etc


• The Metropolitan Museum of Art : The Art of Ancient Egypt (a resource book of 184 pages by Edith Watts)


• Archnet
• Living Tradition (Mali)


• The Great Mosque at Djenne (Mali)


• Magnificent Mud: Mosques in Mali


• Houses of Light: Rural Mosques of Senegal and Mali


• Mopti: Tradition in the Present, Elements for Reflection and Action in Medium-Sized Cities in Africa (Mali)


• The Ecology and Ideology of Cities on the Edge of the Desert


• Great Mosque of Niono (Mali)


• Yaama Mosque (Niger)


• Triangles of Light: Tokolor Dwellings (Senegal)


• Houses of Upper Volta (Burkina Faso)


• Type and Variation: Berber Collective Dwellings of the Northwestern Sahara (Morocco)


• The Old City of Sana'a (Yemen)


• Conservation of Old Sana'a (Yemen)


• Building with Earth in South Arabia (Yemen)

  

• UT Library Online - Historical maps of Africa


• Maps reflecting the development of European knowledge of African geography from 1562 through 1940


• Afriterra : The cartographic library - Rare maps of Africa
  
• University of Florida Map & Imagery Library : historic African maps


• Reisenett.no - Historical Maps of Africa

  

• The Basel Mission Picture Archive : a collection of some 28'000 photos taken between 1850 and 1950


• Centre Edmond Fortier


• Cartes postales de la Côte d'Ivoire


• Images du passé en Afrique de l'Ouest


• Unesco : cartes postales d'Afrique

  

• Bradshaw Foundation : ancient rock art around the world


• Fliegel Jezerniczky Expeditions : The Libyan Desert Home Page (many many photos !)


• Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main : African Archaeology and Archaeobotany

  

• Christopher Roy - African pottery


• William Itter Collection of African Pottery

  

• Perles d'Afrique - Beads of Africa

  

• Adire African Textiles


• Hamill Gallery of African art - textiles

  

• Iba Ndiaye - artiste peintre


• American Museum of Natural History - African ethnographic collection


• Hamill Gallery of African art - terracottas


• Aaoarts.com


• François Mottas - Initiation aux arts de l'Afrique tribale


• www.africart.net

  

• Siris Image Gallery - Eliot Elisofon Photo Archives : Search by "Countries", "Subjects" or "Cultural Groups"


• TribalPhoto.com


• BlackMirages


• Mirella Ricciardi - An African photographer


• Noorderlicht : African photographers

  

• Africultures : cinema, theater, music, dance, plastic arts, photography


• Je chanterai pour toi : La "ballade" de Boubacar Traore

  

• Ethnographic Arts Publications


• Soumbala.com - Librairie africaniste/Africana bookseller


• Librairie Fischbacher - Fine Art Books


• "African Arts" - Now distributed by The MIT Press!

  

• Afromix.org


• Cora Connection : explore the rich musical world of West Africa

  

• Smithsonian National Museum : Human Origins Program


• The Institute of Human Origins : Becoming Human


• The Leakey Foundation


• Bradshaw Foundation

  

• Art & Life in Africa
• countries resources
• peoples resources
• Nations Online : a portal to the countries of the world


• Famine Early Warning Systems Network


• Unesco World Heritage


• An A-Z of African studies on the Internet


• American Museum of Natural History


• University of Wisconsin - AfricaFocus


• Survival-International.org : for the support of tribal peoples

  

• Afghanistan 1969-1974 : Dr. Volker Thewalt's photos of the Buddhas in Bamiyan & other locations


• Tribal Textiles.Info - photo galleries


• Oriental Architecture

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