African Online Digital Library

Erişim adresi : http://www.aodl.org

The African Online Digital Library (AODL) is a portal to multimedia collections about Africa. MATRIX, working with the African Studies Center at Michigan State University, is partnering with universities and cultural heritage organizations in Africa to build this resource. Collections include:

• Everyday Islam in Kumas (video interviews with Muslim men and women from Kumasi, Ghana)
• Ajami in the Senegambia (handwritten ajami manuscripts produced by West African scholars)
• Saint-Louis: Religious Pluralism in the Heart of Senegal (handwritten texts, images and audio interviews about the interactions of Saint Louis's French Catholic communities, Muslim majority, the French administration, and Freemasons in the late 19th and 20th centuries)
• West African Online Digital Library (photographs, audio interviews, and documents)
• Africa Past & Present (podcast about history, culture, and politics in African diaspora)
• African e-Journals Project (full-text articles of 11 humanities and social science journals)
• Exploring Africa (curriculum resource for middle and high school)
• South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy (multimedia online curriculum)
• Community Video Education Trust (over 90 hours of video documenting political activities from 1980s and 1990s South Africa)
• African Activist Archive (multimedia historical materials and interviews with U.S. activists)
• American Black Journal (40-year television show on Detroit Public Television)
• South African Film and Video Project (moving images from years of apartheid struggle)
• African Media Program (searchable database of films and videos about Africa).