Photographs and pictures archive of the Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft Basel (Basler Mission) / Mission 21. The photographs and pictures were taken / drawn by missionaries all over the world between 1850 and 1950. Concerning Africa, there is a focus on Cameroon and Ghana. The archive presents an innovative idea with its concept of "Visual Interpreters": researchers are invited to write explanatory texts and comments on the pictures which had often been taken with a strong colonial prejudice in mind. In this way, the pictures are to be put into a historical context. ... [editors ilissAfrica]
Homepage of the West African Research Center (WARC) in Dakar. The Center belongs to the West African Research Association (WARA). WARC is a center for academic exchange between American and West African scholars that encourages research on the region of West Africa. WARC promotes scholarly research on West Africa and the Diaspora and works to foster cooperation between American and West African researchers, students and artists. ... [editors ilissAfrica]
Site is also commercial (sells African textiles), but at the same time, it provides you with extensive information on African textiles, there history, production, origin, way of wearing, use etc. The site includeds many ancient photographs. As the site is very chaotical concerning the linking between the different pages and hence you will not find everything at first glance, please consider the tips and direct links in the summary. ... [editors ilissAfrica]
"Africa Media Online is offering the most comprehensive pan-African features coverage of Africa's first World Cup, with over 100 journalists in 34 African countries producing in-depth, fairly timeless features relating to African football and the impact of the 2010 FIFA World Cup on African life. Over 300 features - images, text, audio and multimedia - will be produced by the Twenty Ten project." [according to site editor’s information] ... [supplemented]
Gallica is the virtual library of the National Library of France. Through its African collection you have access to the accounts, photographs etc of travellers to / exploreres of Africa. The virtual library holds 900 text documents (partly whole books in full text), 30 journals, 80 maps, 20 hours auf audio material and 6,500 photographs. In the year 2002, furthermaterial was meant to be added. You have four possibilities of access: free search of the catalogue, browsing via geography, topic and journals.
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The author of the site, Ken Banks is the creator of FrontlineSMS, a mobile messaging application used by grassroots non-profit communities worldwide. Among others, the website offers a database which contains projects wordlwide using mobile phones for development project and the like. The site and its blog moreover offer a lot of articles and information connecting new technologies to anthropology, conservation and development. Ken Banks is computer scientist and later on studied at SOAS. Since the early 1990s he travelled a lot around different African countries. ... [editors ilissAfrica]
Virtual Library with a lot of full text documents (books, journals), photographs, drawings, engravings from / about lusophon African countries, mostly during colonial times. Some full texts are in English. [editors ilissAfrica]
The DEVA project is run by the African Studies in Bayreuth. It offers online databases containing digitized material in the field of photography, arts, press, primary data from field research (pictures, audio and video) and much more. [editors ilissAfrica]
MédiHal is an open archive which enables to deposit image-type scientific iconographic documents (scanned images, digitalised photographs, digital photographs, synthesis images or digital simulation images, etc.). In the spirit of the international movement in favour of open access to scientific data, the images deposited in MédiHAL are accessible on line i.e. immediately after deposition, or after a mobile barrier (which remains modifiable). MédiHAL is based upon self-archiving by french scientists and supervision staff members in superior education and research. [according to site editor’s information] ... [changed]
The Digital Namibian Archive (DNA) is a collaborative project, lead jointly by Utah Valley University (UVU) and the Polytechnic of Namibia operating in conjunction with the Namibian National Archive. The digital archive will make accessible on the Internet a rich resource that reflects the diversity of voices and cultural stories of Namibian people. The DNA gathers and preserves images of independence, photo negatives of the colonial period, documents of transition, and other artifacts. This project is intended not only to counter the loss of oral tradition by capturing and cataloguing oral histories, but also develop skills and capacity among Namibians to continue to expand the archive. UVU faculty will conduct workshops for Namibian students and professionals on digital capture, restoration, design, editing and asset management. ... [according to site editor's information]