A special issue on social movements in Agrica of the German journal sul serio in cooperation with "Ouagadougou Sans Papiers" on the occasion of the World Social Forum in Nairobi 2007. [editors ilissAfrica]
The Ushaidi Platform can be used for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping of a specific topic. It was created as a tool for documenting the post-electoral violent events in Kenya 2008. Meanwhile, a number of other initiatives in Africa use this platform. For a list of projects see table of contents (as at April 2011). Ushaidi Blog was awarded best of the blogs by Deutsche Welle in 2010. ... [editors ilissAfrica]
The interdisciplinary "Geographic Working Group Sub-Saharan Africa" at the University of Vienna deals with processes of social, cultural, economic, and political change, ecological questions and changes at the interface between human being and environment. [editors ilissAfrica]
The interdisciplinary research group CEPED does research on the relationship between population and development in southern countries. The research focuses on three areas: gender and health; international migration and social dynamics; family and education. You will find many specific Africa related programmes, fulltext publications and more. ... [editors ilissAfrica]
The MALD is an expired Secial Research Project about "Long term changes in Africa". There were four focusses of research: 1. Epistemology/Cognitive Science and Knowledge; Reproduction and Innovation in African Societies (8. - 20. Century); 3. Formation of Power and New Political Formation (18. - 21. Century); 4. Spaces, Heritage and Environment. On this site, you will find a lot of information concerning the projects and their outcome. ... [editors ilissAfrica]
Information about a Cooperative Research Project at the University of Bremen on "Governance and Social Action in Sudan after the Peace Agreement of January 2005: local, national, and regional dimensions". The research is done with the financing of the Volkswagen Foundation and its support programme "Knowledge for Tomorrow: Cooperative Research Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa. Political, Economic, and Social Dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa". You will find a lot of information on the project, about conferences, literature (incl. fulltext documents), partners and much more. ... [editors ilissAfrica]
'Udadisi - Rethinking in Action' is a blog presenting constructive critiques of the social, cultural and political dynamics of African societies and their states (also in consideration of the colonial past). The blog is written by Chambi Chachage [editorial staff of ilissAfrica].
LASDEL is an independent Research Centre for social sciences. Research is done in the fields of social dynamics / processes and local development. LASDEL was founded in 2001. The links "études et recherches", "publications", "animations scientifiques" on the left side of the page lead you to summaries, the full text documents are not available. Nevertheless, under "Collection Études et Travaux" on the right side, you will find many free full text documents on researches done by members of the centre, among others a whole serie of titles about "Local power in the commune of XY". ... [editors ilissAfrica]
Homepage of the Africa House of the New York University with interdiscplinary participants that do research about African countries (focus on Ghana). You will find information concerning the projects and conferences of the Africa House, including audio and video material. [editors ilissAfrica]
The Royal Tropical Institute in the Netherlands offers a wide range of resources in the field of development policies and the like. You will e.g. find their digitized map and museum collection, dossiers and many full text documents on different topics (see table of contents). [editors ilissAfrica]