Links

General Information on Africa

	Africa - Companion Site to a PBS series. Good background on regions and issues affecting the continent
	AllAfrica -- A leading site for news from the continent

Online Exhibitions

	Africa: the Art of a Continent from a major exhibit at the Guggenheim
	African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning from the University of Virginia
	The Art of African Masks from Virginia
	The Artist's Eye; The Divination Insight -- African Divination Art from the Maurer Collection, Amherst College
	Art and Oracle - from an exhibit about divination art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
	Ritual Messengers: African Treasures from the Tervuren Museum, Belgium. An exhibition at the Canadian Museum of Civilization with fabulous objects
	Cutting to the Essence, Shaping for the Fire from Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences in Peoria, Illinois -- Yoruba and Akan art
	Ethiopia: Traditions of Creativity - extensive documentation of an exhibition
	Ethiopian Art Heritage Project - beautiful site on Ethiopia's Christian Art
	Magical Faces of Africa - an exhibition of African masks from the Dapper Museum in Paris
	Eloquent Elegance Beadwork in the ZULU cultural tradition
	Passport to Paradise - an exhibition of religious art from Senegal
	Life Force at the Anvil - an illustrated lecture on art of the blacksmith

African Art in Museums

	The National Museum of African Art Washington DC
	The Museum for African Art, NYC
	African Art at the Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta

	Rock Art Research Centre, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
	TRACCE - Rock Art Bulleting Online

	ICOM (International Council of Museums) Red List of Endangered African Sites including Jenne and Nok
	MAESAO Swiss Excavations in Mali focusing on ethno-archaeology and women's pottery
	Archaeology at Rice University. Excavations at Jenne Jeno and the problem of looted art
	Mali Empire and Djenne Figures - introduction from the National Museum of African Art
	Djenne - from Sacred Sites (focusing on the Great Mosque)
	Inagina - Documentation of Dogon iron smelting
	Dogon - River Niger - Lobi - Photographic albums from the Sahel region - with wonderful photographs of adobe architecture and masking
	Kingdoms of the Medieval Sudan - with basic historical information. check out the photo gallery

	A short introduction about Ife from the Metropolitan Museum site
	ICOM Red List concerning Ife
	Just some images of Ife art objects

	Benin Art at the Museum f�r V�lkerkunde Wien including famous dwarfs (text in German)
	Benin Art at the National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC - minimal
	A student's creative project of a Benin head
	African Art at the Ralph Proctor Gallery-- exhibition of contemporary art from Benin (most people will call it tourist art)
	Africa Repatriation Movement - An organization that is trying to get art returned to Africa. Including a campaign to return the Benin bronzes.
	Just some images of Benin art

Nuba Body Art

	The International Women's Committee to Support Nuba Women and Children-- information on the current plight of the Nuba people.
	Nuba Survival -- A site dedicated to promoting the cause of the Nuba people
	Nuba Photographs from the official web site (?) of Leni Riefenstahl
	Another Riefenstahl Site with many photographs
	A biography of Leni Riefenstahl

	Cutting to the Essence -- an exhibition of Yoruba Art including Ifa Divination, Kings and Crowns, and more
	Orilonise - an illustrated article by a the leading scholar Babatude Lawal
	Yoruba Masking from the Baobab Narratives
	Yoruba Twin Figures (Ibeji) -- an article from the Milwaukee Public Museum
	Yoruba Divination - an essay by John Pemberton
	Ifa Foundation -- on Ifa Divination in America Today. Get your own divination online

Baule Art

	The Self and the Other: Personhood and Images among the Baule - an exhibition of Baule statues from University of California, Santa Barbara
	African Art Western Eyes - a major exhibition of Baule art

Kuba Art

Kuba Textiles -- From the Baobab Narratives

	Africa Remix - A major exhibition of contemporary African art now touring Europe
	The Poetics of Line interesting site on a great exhibition on Nigerian Uli art
	In/Sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present. Exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum
	Sokari Douglas Camp - a leading Nigerian Artist
	Contemporary African Artists: database -- from Cornell University
	ARTTHROB - an online journal on contemporary art from South Africa
	NikeArt - featuring Nike - the famous textile artist from Oshogbo
	Art Coffins from Ghana at the National Museum of Funeral History
	Art Throb is a great eJournal on contemporary art of South Africa

The Market in African Art

Ethnographica -- African Art for sale with good background on cultures

	Olodum -- Brazil Carnival Organization - emphasizing African roots
	Harlem 1900-1940 from the Schomburg Library, NYC
	Bibliography on the Harlem Renaissance

Interactive and Educational Resources

	Art and Life in Africa -- From the University of Iowa. The beginning of an interesting site with multiple views of single objects
	African Pottery -- a rich site on ceramic arts in Africa
	The Baobab Narrative -- and experimental interactive project from Harvard. Lots of interesting reading

Online Journals

General Sources on Africa

	Columbia University: African Studies Internet Resources
	African Art on the Internet - extensive list of links
	African Philosophy Resources with many links
	Links to many exhibitions on Africa