Internet resources: Search

Very instructive site with many resources concerning the Comoros Islands. The site was chosen as best web site about the Comoros at the Comores Music Awards 2006. The following categories are especially worth mentioning: Echo Des Iles Comores (radio broadcast with extensive audio file archives, interviews with politicians and other personalities, pictures during the interview, etc.), a very detailed list of journals, magazines, newspapers on the Comoros. Furthermore the section Collector's Corner with stamps, phone cards, ancient postcard (photographs), ancient engravings, modern postcards, bank notes, coins, etc. ... [editors ilissAfrica]

The Africaserver is the platform for communication between the Netherlands and Africa on the Internet, subtitled "African Vibrancies". The focus is on art and culture, politics and society. The site was launched in 1997 with the first virtual expositions. In 2006 the website was redesigned as an on-line magazine. The extensive hyperlinks database, organized by country and by theme, contains over 1400 websites. The AfricaDirectory is a 'business directory' with African professionals and institutions in the Netherlands. The Africaserver has also produced several on-line educational modules, for instance on Urban Culture and Slavery and the virtual exhibition 'Wit over Zwart over Wit' (White on Black on White), all in Dutch. A spin-off from the Africaserver is the Virtual Museum for Contemporary African Art www.vmcaa.nl. ... [according to site editor's information]

Blog of the researcher Tierno Bah about past and present issues of Guinea, as well as some other African states. Bah also writes an amount of other interesting blogs, especially about West Africa (Mande, Fulani, Fuuta, ....) and about computer science in Africa (list of blogs: see table of contents).You will also find some fulltexts and e-books (e.g. in Ajami-Fulfulde includind Latin transcription). ... [editors ilissAfrica]

Rosebell Kagumire is a Ugandan journalist who has already been writing for different Ugandan journals. In her private blog, she pursues this journalistic work by giving a rich account of Ugandan society. Her website, which could formerly be found under http://ugandanjournalist.vox.com, won the Investigative Journalism Awards hosted by Makerere University Department of Mass Communication. Furthermore, it she won the 2009 Waxal Blogging Africa Award IPAO for the Best English-speaking journalist’s blog. ... [editors ilissAfrica]