African Studies Blog

H-Net announces the above exhibition on view at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta through July 11, 2009.  It is a special installation, showcasing four masks from the permanent collection and two masks on loan from collector Emmet Bondurant. The installation spotlights masks carved by artist Yacouba Bonde, including one presented in full costume. The masks carved of wood and painted with black, white and red geometric patterns-include a hyena, a chameleon, a bush cow, a snake (nearly fifteen feet high) and a butterfly (nearly nine feet wide). Read the full announcement.

Oxford University Press and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and
African American Research at Harvard University would like to announce
an ambitious new project, the Dictionary of African Biography (DAB). In
the spirit of the Dictionary of National Biography, the American
National Biography, and the African American National Biography, all
three published by Oxford University Press, the Dictionary of African
Biography will be a major biographical dictionary covering the lives and
legacies of notable African men and women from all eras and walks of
life. This groundbreaking resource will tell the full story of the
African continent through the lives of its people.  The initial print
edition of the DAB, scheduled for publication in 2011, will include
2,000 entries in five volumes.  A further 2,000 entries will be added
online. Read the full announcement.

BBC News-Africa reports that African software and language experts have started a project to translate Mozilla’s Firefox web browser into the local Ugandan language of Luganda.  The aim of the project is to increase the number of non-English speakers who use computers particularly in the rural areas of Uganda. Read the full article.

This is the title of an article in the Washington Post  describing the issue of women with fertility problems in Africa, specifically Uganda.  It provides some insights on African belief systems, culture and the issue of social stigmatization of women with such problems.  It describes the gradual introduction of fertility clinics in Africa and how stimatization might prevent women from seeking help.

National Geographic Cairo DestinationMap.

Evergreen, CO : National Geographic Maps, c2003.

DestinationMap Dar es Salaam : includes Zanzibar & Pemba.

Evergreen, CO : National Geographic Maps, c2003.

Cape Town : destination map.

Evergreen, CO : National Geographic Maps, c2003.

 Victoria Falls : destination map.

Evergreen, CO : National Geographic Maps, c2003.

India in Africa, Africa in India : Indian Ocean cosmopolitanisms.

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2008.

Africa and the Americas : culture, politics, and history : a multidisciplinary

encyclopedia.

Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2008.

A search for origins : science, history and South Africa’s ‘Cradle of

Humankind’.

Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2007.

Population, health and development in Ghana : attaining the millenium [sic]

development goals.

Accra : Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2007.

Poverty reduction strategies in action : perspectives and lessons from Ghana.

Lanham : Lexington Books, c2008.

Akpan, Uwem.

Say you’re one of them.

1st ed.

New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2008.