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1. Africa Databank: Survey Navigator
   Lists the various reports available for each country, giving title and year.
   03-03-2008 : africa, international development, poverty, surveys
2. Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa, 1763-2006
   Part of AfricaBib, so it provides bibliographic data only.
   03-03-2008 : africa, explorers, history, missionaries, women travelers
3. Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature
   “An index of over 300 selected periodicals (mostly scholarly) which are acquired regularly from 29 African countries.”
   03-03-2008 : africa, journals, periodicals
4. East African Development Library
   A virtual library in which you can browse by subject or organization or also search by particular words, title, subject or organization.
   03-03-2008 : africa, agriculture, breeding, communication, community development, culture, economic development, education, energy, environment, financing, fishing, food, health, history, human development, indigenous knowledge, marketing, natural resources, ngos, science, social development, state and civil service, technology, water
5. EL@ND: Research for Development
   “EL@ND provides a single search to 11 catalogues of development information. It has multilingual support to retrieve articles in resources catalogued throughout Europe.”
   02-21-2008 : administration, africa, agriculture, america, asia, central america, culture, education, environment, europe, finance, health, industry/technology, information, international development, intl. cooperation, labour, north america, pacific islands, population, society, south, trade, transport
6. Links to Web Sites Featuring Africa Maps by Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington
   Links to a handful of pertinent sites.
   02-21-2008 : africa, maps
7. Care of Creation
   “... a Christian environmental organization, seeking to awaken and mobilize the Church to care for God's creation in the face of an environmental crisis that is already devastating vast areas of the world.”
   02-21-2008 : africa, brackenhurst environmental programme, christianity, ecology, environment, kenya, missions
8. Revised Curricula for Nigerian Polytechs
   “... contains the 24 documents of the project Revitalizing Technical and Vocational Education in Nigeria that was implemented by UNESCO with sponsorship from the Government of Japan through its Funds-in-Trust Programme.”
   02-15-2008 : africa, development, education, nigeria, technical training, vocational education
9. Africa Collection For Transition by the Payson Center, Human Info NGO and ICMH
   “... contains more than 300 publications on complex emergency and disaster management in Sub-Saharan Africa.”
   02-15-2008 : africa, disaster preparedness, emergency management, humanitarian aid, international development
10. Librarians’ Internet Index: Regions of the World
    A well-organized starting point for reliable, librarian-selected Internet resources.
    02-14-2008 : africa, arab countries, asia, california, country studies, earth, europe, international, latin america, middle east, north america, oceania, polar regions
11. East African Development Library
    Covers “a wide range of material on development aimed at basic readers, ... The collection contains 592 documents totalling 55000 pages.”
    05-01-2007 : africa, community development, development, east africa
12. Development Southern Africa
    A subscription journal.
    02-11-2007 : africa, international development, southern africa
13. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Africa, The Middle East and Far East
    Covers the issues of debate, including the Muslim perspective.. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)
    02-10-2007 : africa, far east, female genital mutilation, fgm, middle east, muslims
14. Africa Art South of the Sahara
    Many links on various aspects of African art.
    02-09-2007 : africa, african newspapers, art, country studies, culture, current events, film, history, indexes, journals, libraries and archives, maps, music, news, regions: central africa, regions: east africa, regions: horn of africa, regions: indian ocean islands, regions: southern africa, regions: west africa, religions, sports, travel, weather, women's studies
15. Global Issues on the UN Agenda
    A long list of issues with links.
    02-08-2007 : africa, aging, agriculture, aids, antarctica, atomic energy, children, climate change, crime, culture, decolonization, demining, development cooperation, disarmament, disaster relief, drugs, education, elections, energy, environment, family, finance, food, global issues, governance, health, human rights, human settlements, humanitarian aid, indigenous people, information communications technology, intellectual property, international finance, international law, iraq, labor, law of the sea, least developed countries, outer space, palestine, peace, persons with disabilities, population, refugees, science and technology, security, social development, statistics, sustainable development, terrorism, trade, united nations, volunteerism, water, women, youth
16. African Population Studies
    A free online journal in French and English.
    01-17-2007 : africa, country studies, demographics, population studies
17. University of California Press: Public Only Subject List
    Free online books available to the public, listed by subjects.
    01-16-2007 : aboriginal peoples, africa, african american studies, african history, aging, agriculture, american literature, american studies, ancient history, anthropology, archaeology, architectural history, architecture, art, art criticism, art history, art theory, arts, asian history, asian literature, asian studies, autobiographies, autobiography, biographies, biology, bisexual studies, botany, buddhism, business, california and the west, central america, central american history, chicano studies, china, christianity, cinema, classical history, classical literature, classical philosophy, classical politics, classical religions, classics, comparative literature, composers, computer science, contemporary music, cooking, criminology, cultural anthropology, dance, demographics, east asia, eastern european studies, ecology, economics, education, english literature, environmental studies, ethics, ethnic groups, ethnic studies, ethnomusicology, european history, european literature, european studies, fiction, film, folklore, food, french studies, gay studies, gender studies, geography, geology, german studies, hinduism, history, history and philosophy of science, indigenous peoples, indigenous religions, intellectual history, islam, japan, jewish studies, judaism, labor studies, languages, latin america, law, lesbian studies, letters, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, literature, literature in translation, marine and freshwater sciences, mathematics, media studies, medical anthropology, medicine, medieval studies, men and masculinity, middle ages, middle eastern history, middle eastern studies, military history, music, musicology, mythology, native american studies, opera, pacific rim studies, performing arts, philosophy, physical sciences, physics, poetry, political theory, politics, popular culture, postcolonial studies, print media, psychiatry, psychology, public policy, religions, renaissance history, renaissance literature, rhetoric, russian studies, science, social and political thought, social problems, social science, social theory, sociology, south america, south asia, southeast asia, technology and society, theater, tibet, travel, tribes, twain, united states history, urban studies, victorian history, water, western history, wine, women's studies
18. Ancient and Medieval Religion (History for Kids!)
    Explains ancient religions in a way children can understand. Also resources for parents and teachers.. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)
    01-16-2007 : africa, african gods, ancient civilizations, antiquities, china, chinese gods, christianity and islam, egypt, germany, greece, greek mythology, hinduism, india, islam, judaism, medieval studies, middle ages, muslims, parent resources, rome, teaching resources, west asia, zoroastrianism
19. Virtual Africa: Konaka's Website of Web Ethnography
    Focuses on the Samburu people of Kenya.
    01-16-2007 : africa, ethnography, kenya, samburu
20. International League for Human Rights (ILHR)
    Defends 'individual human rights advocates who have risked their lives to promote the ideals of a just and civil society in their homelands.' (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)
    01-12-2007 : africa, algeria, azerbaijan, belarus, human rights, human rights auditing standards, human rights workers: protection, international agreements, northern ireland, russia

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