News and General Information Africa South of the Sahara (Stanford University)
Comprehensive list of Africa-related links
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide.html AllAfrica.com
Compilation of news sources from across the continent
http://allafrica.com/ BBC News/Africa
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/default.stm The Story of Africa - BBC World Service
Good introduction to African history
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/index.shtml Inter Press Service - Africa
http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/ United Nations, Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN)
News and analysis on areas of conflict
http://www.irinnews.org/ United Nations, ReliefWeb
Companion site to IRIN, focus on humanitarian issues
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/dbc.nsf/doc100?openForm
Research and Data
Afrobarometer Home Page
Survey research site, extensive analysis of politics and reform
http://www.afrobarometer.org/ Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University
A leading source for economic research in the region
http://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/ Institute for African Development (IAD), Cornell University
http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/Africa/ Center for Global Development
Research and policy analysis, special focus on aid and reform
http://www.cgdev.org/ International Food Policy Research Institute
http://www.ifpri.org/ Africa Research Program, Harvard University
Governance, institutions, and social change
http://africa.gov.harvard.edu/ LICEP –Laboratory in Comparative Ethnic Processes
Ethnicity and conflict in comparative perspective
http://www.yale.edu/ycias/ocvprogram/LiCEP12.html University of Cape Town. Centre for Social Science Research
Inequality, poverty, HIV/AIDS and public attitudes
http://www.cssr.uct.ac.za/ University of Sussex. Institute of Development Studies. (Brighton, U.K.)
http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/ The World Bank
Data, economic policy analysis, perspectives on governance
http://www.worldbank.org/
African Studies Centers and Organizations
African Studies Association Home Page
The central African studies organization in the US
http://www.africanstudies.org/ African Studies WWW (U. Penn)
Especially useful site with a wide range of links and information
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/AS.html African Studies Center, Leiden, Netherlands
http://www.ascleiden.nl/ African Studies at UCLA
http://www.isop.ucla.edu/africa/ CEAN - Centre d'Etude d'Afrique Noire, University of Bordeaux
Important French center of research and scholarly activity on Africa
http://www.cean.u-bordeaux.fr/ Northwestern University Program of African Studies
http://www.northwestern.edu/african-studies/ Nordiska Afrikainstitutet/Nordic Africa Institute
http://www.nai.uu.se/ Royal African Society
Leading institute on African affairs in the UK
http://www.royalafricansociety.org/ Stanford University Center for African Studies
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/AFR/ University of California, Berkeley, Center for African Studies
http://www.ias.berkeley.edu/africa/ University of Florida, African Studies Program
http://web.africa.ufl.edu/
Policy and Advocacy
AfricaAction
http://www.africaaction.org/index.php Africa Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
http://www.csis.org/africa/ Centre for Democracy and Development (Nigeria)
Governance, security, and democratic change
http://www.cdd.org.uk/ Coalition for Darfur
Maintained by Smith College professor E. Reeves
http://coalitionfordarfur.blogspot.com/ Ghana Center for Democratic Development
http://www.cddghana.org/ GlobalRights
http://www.globalrights.org/site/PageServer?pagename=index Human Rights Watch - Africa
http://www.hrw.org/doc/?t=africa Institute for a Democratic South Africa (IDASA) – South Africa
South Africa’s central institute on democracy and governance
http://www.idasa.org.za/ International Crisis Group
Authoritative analysis and advocacy on conflict
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm Kabissa
Civil society and participation
http://www.kabissa.org/ OXFAM
Focus on sustainable development
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/ Save Darfur
Leading coalition on Darfur
http://www.savedarfur.org/
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