Regarding Websites:

Web research can be very useful and lead to much useful and important information. While every effort has been made to list only "reliable" sites, researchers should be aware that control of sites change (often without notice) from time to time and, thus, the reliability and point of view of the website may change (for better or worse). One of the best uses of web information is to locate good primary and secondary sources that should be directly examined. Websites also go out of existence, so, for scholarly work, they are not reliable sources, like a published work which, presumably, will always be available in some library (Library of Congress) for examination. Beware especially of quoting or otherwise relying upon unidentified opinions found on websites.

Basic guide to web research:

1. Use your library BEFORE you start your web research. You will learn many terms that will be useful in your web research. You should read at least one good, broad secondary source on the subject before starting your research.

2. Learn how to do web research. Google has a very good set of instructions. USE THEM!

3. Know the site you are using. Find out who is responsible for it. An example of a very good site is the Avalon Project at the Yale Law School (use Google to find it.)

4. Find the original printed source of the information given on the site. You may have to use your library sources or a research librarian to help you. Cite both the internet source and the printed source.

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Major Research Guides and Resources--Global African History 

Africa:

• Africa Literature Research Council

• Africa South of the Sahara: Internet Resources (Stanford University)

• Global African Studies Program (Seattle University)
  
  
• Institute of African Studies (Columbia University)

• Islam in West Africa

• Nelson Mandela Foundation
  

• Smithsonian Natural History Web: African Voices

• South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy

• Spread of African Peoples and Civilizations

• The Africa-America Institute
  
  
• The Story of Africa (BBC World Service)

• US Africa Foundation

• Wangari Maathai and the Kenyan Greenbelt Movement

• Wonders of Africa with Henry Louis Gates Jr. (PBS)

 

Asia:

• Black Tokyo.com

• Exhibit: The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World

• The African Community in Shanghai and China
  

 

Canada:

• Afro-Canadians in Nova Scotia
  

• Black Cultural Centre of Nova Scotia

• Black History Canada

• Black Pioneers Descendant's Society (Western Canada)

• CanadaNoir
  
  
• Ebony Roots: Black Canadian Studies (McGill University)
  
  
• Valley African and Nova Scotian Development Association

Europe:

• Africa Research Institute
  
  
• Black Presence: Asian and Black History in Britain (British National Archives)

• Blacks in Europe: A Bibliography
  
  
• Ignatius Sancho: African Man of Letters
  
  
• Jewels in the Jungle: African History in Europe
  

• Museo Afroperuano (Afro-Peruvian Museum)

• The Black Cultural Archives of Great Britain

• The British Library Online Gallery: Black Europeans 

Latin America:

• Garifuna Links

• LANIC-Latin American Network Information Center (UT, Austin)

• Latin American and Caribbean Center Florida International University

 

West Indies:

• AfroCubaWeb
  
  
• Fernando Ortiz: A Bibliography of Afro-Cuban Culture

Global:

• Global Insular Conservation Society

• Museum of the African Diaspora

• "Breaking the Silence" the Transatlantic Slave Trade Education Project