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African Studies Web Server (Univ.Penn.)
  • Exhaustive annotated web links
  • Arranged by country
  • Subject approach ranges from economics and agriculture to population studies, relief work and wildlife
Background Notes on Countries of the World: Africa (State Dept)
  • Summarizes a country's history, economy, and foreign policy
  • Updated on a staggered basis every few years
CIA World Factbook
  • Brief information about a country's population, ethnicity, politics, economics, transportation and military
  • Demographic data includes age, sex, birth and death rates, ethnicity, and literacy
  • The corresponding paper copy is in Doc.Cen. G 122 .U56--Doc.Ref
Committee Publications
Committee Publications
  • Includes hearings (testimony), committee prints (research reports), reports (recommendations on bills), and documents (Executive Branch communiques)  
  • Selected Hearings on Debate Topic  
Economic Intelligence Unit (UMich Only)
  • Extensive country profiles and reports on economics, health, business and political risk
EHRAF Collection on Ethnography
  • Search keywords such as AIDS or malaria for customs of tribal cultures in Africa
Sociological Abstracts (UMich Only)
  • Index of sociology articles since 1952 with MGetIt links to many in full text
  • Numerous articles on cultural practices in Africa, including prevention, treatment, and traditional remedies for AIDS
  • Example: Aids and Africa
Traditional African Medicine
  • Article from the Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
  • Provides details and examples of traditional medicine in Africa
Traditional Medicine
  • Brief description of the practices and herbal medicines used in many African countries
  • WHO's goals to integrate safe traditional medicine into its programs
UNESCO Education Server
  • Statistics on educational enrollment, attainment, teaching, and finance for the world, continentsts, and groups of countries
  • Brief education and mortality statistics for individual countries
  • Extensive section on HIV/AIDS education
  • Directory of national ministries of education and distributors of UNESCO publications
 
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