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Audio and Video
- African Musical Instruments
Online audio. - African Songs
Online audio - Cinderella of the Cape Flats
A documentary on the Annual Spring Queen pageant of South African clothing workers. - South African Music
Online audio. - The life and times of Sara Baartman: "The Hottentot Venus"
A documentary film of the life a Khoikhoi woman who was taken from South Africa in 1810 and exhibited as a freak across Britain. - Witches in exile
Introduces us our women who have taken refuge in the Kukuo witches' camp and who represent a cross section of the 'witch' population of Northern Ghana today.
Basic Reference Sources
Cambridge History of Africa
Call Number: online and MAIN DT20 .C28
ISBN: 052122215X
Publication Date: 1970-
A scholarly study by experts, from prehistory to 1975. Very useful for bibliographies of secondary and primary sources.
Encyclopedia of African History
Call Number: REF DT20 .E53 2005
ISBN: 1579582451
Publication Date: 2005
3v.
Encyclopedia of African and African-American Religions
Call Number: REF BL2462.5 .E53 2001
ISBN: 0415922453
Publication Date: 2001
Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion
Call Number: REF GT507 .E54 2010
ISBN: 0195377338
Publication Date: 2010
10v. Volume 1 covers Africa.
International Encyclopedia of sexuality
Call Number: MAIN HQ21 .I68 1997
ISBN: 0826408419
Publication Date: 1997
3v.
Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World's Cultures
Call Number: REF HQ 16 .E53 2003
ISBN: 030647770X
Publication Date: 2004
2v. Organized by culture, such as Igbo, Samburu, etc.
Statistics
- International Historical Statistics
3v. Most cover 1750 - 2000; volumes treat Africa and Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Ref HA4675 .M55 2003, HA1107 .M5 1998, and HA175 .M55 2003. - Lexis Nexis Statistical Insight - Now ProQuest Statistical Insight
Provides tables from and indexing for to statistics produced by the U.S. government, major international organizations, professional and trade organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, and state government agencies. - Women of the World: Sub-Saharan Africa
GOVREF-CENSUS C 3.2:W 84/5
This series treats women in various regions of the world, offering statistics on health, education, income, and more. - The World's Women: 2010
This is the fifth and latest in a series from the United Nations that covers "demographics, health, education, work, violence against women, poverty, human rights and decision-making." - Population Council
Extensive collection of demographic reports; use their search engine to locate specific topics or regions. - FAO: Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N.
Reports and statistics on food and diet, crops and animal husbandry, farming organization, land tenure, and more. - WHO: Women's Health
The World Health Organization's site for reports on women and public health. Leads to a separate site for the African region.
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