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Online Library Resources & Services
Welcome! This guide highlights the major resources the library provides for your research in African Studies. Use the menu at the left to navigate.
Remember:
- You can access most library resources from wherever you are by logging in with your GU NetID and password. (instructions: Off Campus Access)
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Key Resources
- Africa ConfidentialNew digest; limited years.
- African Country SitesA comprehensive list of web sites for African nations.
- African Online Digital LibraryPortal for web projects, including: Images, texts, and sound recordings focusing on West Africa. Includes: photographs from "'Passport to Paradise': Sufi arts of Senegal and beyond" exhibit; images of mosques in Bondoukou, Cote d'Ivoire; images from IFAN, L'Institut Fondemental d'Afrique Noire, African Activist Archive and other anti-apartheid resources.
- Africa PortalAfrica Portal is an online knowledge resource for policy-related issues on Africa. 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.
- African Voices: Smithsonian Natural History WebCollection of thematic exhibits on wealth, markets, working, living, and Africans outside Africa. Includes an image-based overview of African history, and focus galleries on Yoruban carving techniques and Afro-Brazilian religion.
- ALUKAIncludes African heritage sites and the Southern African liberation struggle archives.
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtPhoto selections from the Smithsonian Institution's African photo archive.
- Ethnologue: Languages of the WorldLists languages geographically, by continent and country, with statistics of speakers.
