Africa, with nearly one-billion people, represents the world's third-largest market after China (1.3-billion) and India (1.1-billion), and is widely recognized as the last frontier for global economic growth. It is also where humanity began. And yet it has the lowest and least informed profile of any region on the internet; moreover, what does appear is often selective, lacks context and reinforces outdated stereotypes. Africa deserves a new deal – and especially in Wikipedia.
WikiAfrica is an international collaborative project between Africa Centre and Lettera27 that is designed to Africanize Wikipedia by generating and expanding 30,000 articles over two years. The project promotes a new method of acquiring and sharing knowledge that is fully-inclusive, mainstream, intercultural and relevant to contemporary and historic Africa. The initial two years are focused on encouraging external Africa-based, cultural organizations, museums and archives, as well as bloggers and journalists, to contribute their knowledge to Wikipedia.
Journal of African Law has been in existence for over half a century, following changing trends in law and legal reform. It covers a range of topics pertaining to legal issues on the African continent encompassing international law, post conflict resolution, constitutionalism and commercial law.
"South African arts, culture and heritage studies encyclopedia is divided into four broad research areas:
The verbal arts, performing arts, visual arts and heritage (including rites of passage, indigenous knowledge systems, belief systems, value systems such as ubuntu, customs and traditions, various other cultural practices). The online component takes the form of a wiki - members of the public - can register accounts and submit or edit content that they may have knowledge of. "
Quebecois literary articles database with access to over 75000 theoretical articles including articles about African literature and languages. In French, some English. Find full text journal articles (also books, theses) through a keyword Search.
Promotes Gambian writing, includes news and events, index of Gambian authors, published articles, short stories, poems and plays, Gambian historians, and portal of Gambia-related links.
African Journals OnLine (AJOL) is the world's largest and pre-eminent collection of peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals. The site allows browsing of peer-reviewed journals from Africa, downloading articles, searching articls/authors/keywords, and more. Includs more than 400 journals
"index covering the interwar Pan-African periodicals La Revue du Monde Noir, Légitime Défense, L’Étudiant Noir, the wartime Tropiques, and the postwar Présence Africaine, as well as the Québécois journal Liberté. Descriptions of each journal, with references. Search by author, theme, genre (biography, interview, folklore, play, poetry, review, etc.) Brown University
Ohio State University's literary index of Africa: African authors organized according to countries or alphabetically. Authors' pages include their primary works, selected references and critical essays, web sites, interviews, dissertations and prizes.
in French. online database of more than 25000 publications from south Saharan Africa, some translations of African texts into French, critical essays and articles. LITAF publishes an annual bibliography of French African literature. Site includes a list of publications and contact information.
"Full text Nigerian market / Onitsha literature. Includes an essay on the historical and literary context; a Bibliography of the 101 Pamphlets in the Onitsha Market Literature Collection at Spencer Research Library, by Ken Lohrentz, a map of publishers, and a Bibliography of writings on Nigerian market literature : a sequel, by Kenneth P. Lohrentz. From the University of Kansas."
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