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Africa (companion website for series produced by Nature & National Geographic)

Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent

African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning

African Art Museum: Online Reference to the Artistic Styles of Africa

African History (from about.com)

African National Congress Online

African Timelines: History, Orature, Literature & Film

African Voices
Use the interactive timeline to learn about the intersection of history, culture and art in Africa

Art and Life in Africa Project

Art of Being Tuareg: Sahara Nomads in a Modern World

Cutting to the Essence
Yoruba art in wood and metal

Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology

Kinship and Social Organization: An Interactive Tutorial
Click on group in Ethnographic Examples section (such as Akan of West Africa or Igbo of Nigeria)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History: African Art
Go to the "A" section of the thematic index

National Museum of African Art
Click on "Art & Programs" to see Virtual Exhibits; click on "Collections" to see Eliot Elisofen Photographic Archives.

Radio Expeditions (NPR in collaboration with National Geographic)
  Includes links to audio programs, photos, music and videos

bullet On the Edge, Timbuktu    
bullet Slavery's Bitter Legacy in West Africa   
bullet Voodoo and West Africa's Spiritual Life

The Story of Africa: African History from the Dawn of Time

Virtual Research Institute for the Continent of Africa

Wrapped in Pride: Ghanian Kente and African American Identity
A virtual exhibit from the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution
    
   
         

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