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Pan-African CD-ROM Workstation

 


This is an in-house collection of resources about African American and African studies.  It provides a place to access bibliographic references, full-text, folk music, art, speeches, historical documents, and video clips from the most important African and African American CD-ROMs available.  There are currently twenty titles resident on the hard-drive, but we expect the volume of resources to grow as new materials become available.  Please stop by room 328 Main Library to try them out.

 

Database Descriptions

 

African-American Culture & History

Over 250 articles and many appendices have been revised, and more than 30 new articles have been added. In addition to the 2,300 articles in the Encyclopedia, the CD-ROM includes maps, graphs, photographs and illustrations, about 45 primary source documents, a timeline, and historic tours of significant eras and events.

 

The African-American Experience

Covers the beginning of slavery in Colonial America through the post-Civil Rights era of the 1990s.  Topics include African American religions, folklore, family structure, art, literature, and music.  Resources include timelines, essays, document descriptions, pictures, captions, essays, maps, more than 200 documents, and 500 pictures.

 

African-Americans in the 1870 U.S. Federal Census

"Heritage Quest has extracted all heads of households listed as 'Black' or 'Mulatto,' as well as those listed with African birth who were listed in the 1870 U.S. Federal Census Index ... Includes 1,672,418 entries"

 

 African Studies Association Conference Papers:

  • 1990-1992, 1997

  • 1993-1996

The African Studies Association sponsors an Annual Meeting, which provides an occasion for panels, plenary sessions and discussion groups. Participants from America, Africa, Asia and Europe gather for this meeting, which is held in different regions of North America. Highlights of the Annual Meeting include the Abiola Lecture, the Presidential Address, and a distinguished speaker hosted by the Women's Caucus.

Past meetings were held in Toronto (1994), Orlando (1995), San Francisco (1996), Columbus (1997), Chicago (1998), Philadelphia (1999), Nashville (2000), and Houston (2001).

 

Art and Life in Africa

Based on The Stanley Collection at the University of Iowa Museum of Art and
supplemented by additional images from important collections across the country, images can be combined in the visual guide with maps, music, photographs of objects in use in Africa, video footage depicting everyday life, annotated text, and narrative commentary, all provided by consulting scholars. Through these materials, African art objects are understood to be tools by which African cultures solve problems, resolve conflict and deal with the adversities of daily life.
  

Black Studies On Disc

Information on materials by and about African Americans, Africa and peoples of African ancestry. Includes catalog of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and citations from the Index to Black periodicals, 1989-.

 

Book Chain in Anglophone Africa

This book looks at the book chain in English-speaking African countries. It has two major purposes: firstly, to review the overall situation on the continent, both generally and within each anglophone country; secondly, to provide a directory of major players in the book chain in those countries so as to assist commercial business as well as librarians in making the contacts necessary for the development of their services.

 

Call & Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition

The CD features an array of oral performances in the form of speeches, sermons, stories, poems, and songs. The contents are organized in chronological order, beginning with the African oral epic Sunjata and ending with poetry by Amiri Baraka and jazz by John Coltrane.
  

Civil Rights in the United States

This multimedia CD-ROM explores many primary source documents that guarantee rights to U.S. citizens.  It offers a collection of resource documents that include Supreme Court cases, pictures, maps, historical texts, and video clips that established or affected civil rights.

 

Encarta Encyclopedia Africana

Explores the history, culture and achievements of African people and their descendents around the world. Rich in music, dance, art and literature, African history and traditions come to life through articles, interviews, maps, timelines and songs.
  

Harvard Guide to African American History

A companion to the book, this CD-ROM makes more than 150,000 bibliography entries available for computer searching.
  

Library of Congress Nairobi Office Accessions List:

  • 1997-1998

  • 1995-1996

As a record of the publications it acquires, the Nairobi office publishes the bimonthly Accessions List, Eastern and Southern Africa), with the biennial Serial Supplement, and the Annual Publishers Directory.  These CD-ROM continue the print format publication: Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, Nairobi, Kenya.  Accessions list, Eastern and Southern Africa. Annual Serial Supplement.

 

The Mayibuye Centre Archive

Consists of 48 titles on the history of freedom on South Africa, such as the speeches of Mandela and Luthuli and a pictorial history of the ANC.

 

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature: Audio Companion

Vernacular tradition -- Spirituals -- Gospel -- The Blues -- Jazz -- Rap -- Sermons -- Folktales --Slavery and Freedom: 1746-1865 -- Reconstruction: 1865-1919 -- Harlem Renaissance: 1919-1940 -- Realism, Naturalism, Modernism: 1940-1960 -- Black Arts Movement: 1960-1970 -- Since 1970.
  

OSSREA ON CD

This virtual library of OSSREA publications contains a database of documents (most of them with full text) and their bibliographic references. The documents on were published between 1980 and 2000 by the Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA).

 

Trans Atlantic Slave Trade: A Datatabase on CD-ROM

Contains records of 27,233 trans-Atlantic slave ship voyages made between 1595 and 1866. Format allows users to track information by time period and geographic region, and includes interactive maps that allow viewers to chart the trans-Atlantic connections. The accompanying data contains materials about people on board, owners and captains, ships' characteristics, and the geographic trajectory of each voyage.
 

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa

v. 1 Historical context -- Setting up the commission -- The mandate -- Concepts and principles -- Methodology and process -- Legal challenges -- The destruction of records -- Report of the chief executive and accounting officer --Administrative reports of statutory committees -- Management and operational reports -- Regional reports -- v. 2 National overview -- The State inside South Africa (1960-1990) -- The liberation movements from 1960 to 1990 -- The homelands from 1960 to 1990 -- The death of President Samora Machel -- Helderberg Crash -- Chemical and biological warfare -- Secret state funding -- Exhumations -- The Mandela United Football Club -- Political violence in the era of negotiations and transition (1990-1994) -- v. 3 Introduction to regional profiles -- Eastern Cape -- Natal and KwaZulu -- Orange Free State -- Western Cape -- Transvaal -- v. 4 Foreword and context of Institutional and special hearings -- Business and labour -- The faith community -- The legal community -- The health sector -- The media -- Prisons -- Compulsory military service -- Children and youth -- Women -- v. 5 Analysis of gross violations of human rights -- Victims of gross violations of human rights -- Interim report of the amnesty committee -- Consequences of gross violations of human rights -- Reparation and rehabilitation policy -- Findings and conclusions -- Causes, motives and perspectives of perpetrators -- Recommendations -- Reconciliation -- Minority position -- Response.
 

25 Junho Vitoria de um povo: Mocambique

A multimedia program on the background and events of Mozambique's achievement of independence from Portugal in 1975.
 
The Union List of Thesis and Dissertations held by Universities and Research Institutions in Kenya
 

The bibliographic records of theses and dissertations reflecting research undertaken in Kenya exist as a basic register. The database includes neither the full text nor the abstracts of the individual papers. Each record has been assigned a unique record number. In the indexes, the user is referred to the record number to locate a particular record.

The Wisdom of African Proverbs 

The African Proverbs Project was designed to promote collection, publication and study of African proverbs with particular attention to their relationship to Christian mission, their role in modern Africa and their significance for a number of academic disciplines. The idea for such a project was stimulated by an announcement in 1992 from the Religion Program of The Pew Charitable Trusts inviting grant applications for "international, interdisciplinary collaborative projects in missiology." This project was one of the first two recipients for that type of grant.

 
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