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African Studies Resources

Background Reading

African Arts (A Quarterly Journal published by the James Coleman African Studies Center, University of California at Los Angeles).

Diawara, M. African Cinema (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1992)

Ecrans d’Afrique (Quarterly of African Film)
COE
Comunicazione & Media
via Lazzaroni 8
20124 Milan, Italy
http://www.peacelink.it/users/coe/work/working.html
(This site is under construction)

Pfaff, F. Twenty-Five African Filmmakers, (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1988).

Ukadike, N.F. Black African Cinema (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1993).


Resource Organizations

Africana.com
A web site devoted to Black History and Culture, is in the process of creating an Africana Film & Cinema Forum. They are in search of filmmakers and scholars who can write informative pieces about African American films, African films, Afro-Caribbean films, Afro-Latino films, etc. for this Forum. Interested parties should contact: ayanna@africana.com
http://www.Africana.com

Africa Recovery
CPMD, DPI, Room S-93
United Nations
New York, NY 10017
212-963-6857

(Publications on African development)

African American Institute
Lexington Ave., Suite 4200
New York, NY 10168
212-949-5666

Anthropology Review Database
This web site offers a searchable on-line database for anthropology articles, resources and reviews.
http://wings.buffalo.edu/ARD/

Association of Concerned Africa Scholars
William G. Martin, Co-Chair
Fernand Braudel Center Binghamton University
PO Box 6000
Binghamton NY 13902-6000
http://www.prairienet.org/acas/

African Studies Association
Rutgers University
Douglass Campus
132 George Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
732-932-8173
http://www.africanstudies.org
(country’s largest organization of Africanist scholars; numerous publications)

American Committee on Africa/Africa Fund
50 Broad St.
Suite 711
New York, NY 10004
(supports legislative and development initiatives)

Africare
449 R Street NW
Washington DC 20001
202-462-3614
http://www.africare.org/
(generates African American support for development projects)

TransAfrica Forum
1744 R Street NW
Washington DC 20009
(African American legislative advocacy organization)
http://www.transafricaforum.org

OXFAM
26 West Street
Boston MA 02111
617-482-1211
http://www.oxfamamerica.org
(supports community-based development projects)

Washington Office on Africa
212 E. Capitol St.
Washington, DC 20003
202-547-7503
http://www.woaafrica.org
(monitors legislation and lobbies Congress)

Human Rights Watch
Africa Division
350 5th Ave.
34th Floor
New York, NY 10118
202-216-1834
http://www.hrw.org

The American Forum for Global Education
120 Wall St. Suite 2600
New York, NY 10005
212-624-1300
http://www.globaled.org
(high school resources for curricula on Africa)

Constituency for Africa
1629 K St. NW
Suite 1010
Washington, DC 20006
202-371-0588
http://www.cfanet.org

Africa Policy Information Center
110 Maryland Ave, NE
Suite 509
Washington DC 20002
http://www.africaaction.org/index.php
(current information on policy issues affecting Africa)

National Summit on Africa
The Ennis W. Cosby International House
1218 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
202-861-8644
http://www.africasummit.org/


University Based Africa Resource Centers

Boston University
African Studies Center
270 Bay State Rd.
Boston, MA 02215
617-353-7303
http://www.bu.edu/afr/

Indiana University
African Studies Program
Woodburn Hall 221
Bloomington IN 47405
812-855-7587
http://www.indiana.edu/~afrist/

Michigan State University
African Studies Center
100 International Center
East Lansing MI 48824-1035
517-353-1700
http://www.isp.msu.edu/africanstudies/

Stanford University
Center for African Studies
School of Humanities and Sciences
Bldg. 240, Rm. 104
Stanford, CA 94305-2152
650-723-0295
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/AFR/

University of California Berkeley
African Studies Center
356 Stephens Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~africa2/
510-642-8338

University of California – Los Angeles
African Studies Center
405 Hilgard Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90024
http://www.isop.ucla.edu/jscasc/
310-825-6552

University of Florida
Center for African Studies
427 Grinter Hall
Gainesville, FL 32611
http://www.africa.ufl.edu/
352-392-2183

University of Illinois
African Studies Center
910 S. 5th St. Room 210
Champaign, IL 61820
217-333-6335

University of Wisconsin
African Studies Program
205 Ingraham Hall
1155 Observatory Dr.
Madison, WI 53706
608-262-2380
http://africa.wisc.edu/

Yale University
Council on African Studies
34 Hillhouse
PO Box 208206
New Haven, CT 06520-8206
203-432-3438
http://www.yale.edu/ycias/african/

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