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African Archaeology Virtual Library – since 2005 the African Archaeology web site is also included in the WWW Virtual Library History Central Catalogue : Bibliography of Angola – Bibliography of DRC – Bibliography of Congo – Bibliography on the palaeo-environment of Central Africa. 

Africana Linguistica : Africana Linguistica is dedicated to the study of African languages with special focus on Bantu. The journal welcomes original descriptive, historical and typological papers in phonetics/phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicology and semantics. 

African Languages and Cultures at Ghent University. 

Afrika-Vereniging van de Universiteit Gent (AVRUG): African Languages and Cultures at Ghent University

Afriterra : Cartographic Library and Archive assembling and preserving the original rare maps of Africa.

Atlas of Mutual Heritage : maps, drawings, prints and paintings of locations related to the Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC) and the West-Indische Compagnie (WIC) 

Crossroads of Empires blog. We are a team of archaeologists, historians and anthropologists studying the Niger Valley where it borders Niger and Bénin (West Africa). We are carrying out new excavations and research to shed more light on the people that inhabited the area between about 1200 and 1850 AD.

Heritage of Portuguese Influence/ Património de Influência Portuguesa. This portal is the natural evolution of the project “Portuguese Heritage around the World: architecture and urbanism” directed by José Mattoso and undertaken by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation from 2007 to 2012.

History, archaeology, and new genetics of the Transatlantic slave trade – The EUROTAST network consists of ten partner institutions across Europe and involves leading researchers from a wide range of disciplines, including history, archaeology, social anthropology and population genetics contributing to a better understanding of the history of the transatlantic slave trade and its legacies today. 

International Council of African Museums 

John Thornton’s African Texts (Cavazzi, “Missione evangelica al Regno de Congo”; Antonio Franco, Synopsis Annalium Societatis Jesu in Lusitania ab 1540 usque ad annum 1725; Roboredo, Kikongo Sermo) 

REFLEX : The Reflex project aims to provide the scientific community with a Reference Lexicon for African languages, as well as various tools for processing and analyzing this corpus. 

Slavery Images : The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record (very good copies of engravings from the XVth century onwards). 

Society for Historical Archaeology – Formed in 1967, the Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) is the largest scholarly group concerned with the archaeology of the modern world (A.D. 1400-present). The main focus of the society is the era since the beginning of European exploration. 

Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology – The SPMA was founded in 1966 with the aim of promoting the archaeology of late medieval to industrial society in Britain, Europe and those countries influenced by European colonialism. 

Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAFA) – The Society of Africanist Archaeologists is an organization of archaeologists, researchers from associated disciplines and others who share an interest in African archaeology and African societies 

WEB Bibliography for African Languages and Linguistics ( WEB-BALL). Maybe the largest database on African languages on the web. Created and curated by the LLACAN team (Langage, Langues et Cultures d’Afrique Noire – UMR 8135 du CNRS) 

Web Resources for African Languages – These pages contain links to other sites hosting free stuff, be they downloadable files (of any format), web-readable texts, searchable databases, or whatever. Particular attention is given to materials that contain structural/descriptive data, though not exclusively so. 

Worldmap : WorldMap is being developed by the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University.