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The impact of COVID on trade in Africa (London School of Economics Blog Post)Luke, David and Macleod, Jamie (2021) The impact of COVID on trade in Africa. LSE COVID-19 Blog (13 Dec 2021). LSE Blog Entry. Abstract: "How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected African trade, and can a recovery be steered towards a more sustainable model? David Luke and Jamie MacLeod (LSE) examine the latest data and ask what this means for African policymakers seeking to deliver real development."
COVID-19 impact on the African cultural and creative sector
"COVID-19 PANDEMIC, ICT AND EDUCATION SYSTEM IN AFRICA: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES"COVID_19_PANDEMIC_ICT_AND_EDUCATION_SYST.pdf (for the full text of the article)
COVID 19 and Afrocentric Perspectives: Health and Economic Implications
COVID_19_and_Afrocentric_Perspectives.pdf (for the full text of the article)
CRS REPORTS (CRS = the Congressional Research Service)Searching the Congressional Research Service will yield specific studies about Africa, and African countries, and indeed, many other countries around the world. (ex. Haiti)
CRS is well-known for producing well-written --and exhaustively researched -- political, social, legal and economic studies of Africa (as well as reports and analyses of global issues, and on countries around the world.) These reports are written by professional researchers, and highly trained Librarians. CRS REPORTS are where professionals go to learn in-depth about political, legal, social and economic issues.
Sample CRS Research Studies:
ABOUT CRS
DASH (DASH = Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard)Allows full-text access to the scholarship produced and published by Harvard Faculty, Harvard Librarians, and Graduate Students. DASH offers impressive scholarship (from Harvard) on Africa, and African issues and themes, as well as valuable research on other countries and global issues. Examples: U.S. Food Aid and Civil Conflict and Political Conflict and State Failure
SAMPLE ARTICLES FOUND IN DASH:
Ethnic Political Settlements in Post-Colonial Africa: A Comparative Study of Nigeria, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda
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Exploring Diaspora Ties to Homeland Neo-Colonialist Movements: The Case of Chinese Diaspora Influence During the "New Scramble for Africa"
and
Shooting Through the Barrel of a Gun: Using Film to Challenge the ‘Single Story’ of Africa
DIGITAL COMMONS NETWORK (for searching across hundreds of academic repositories)"The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. The Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers,conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work." See Below:
DISSERTATIONS AND THESES (HOW TO FIND THE COMPLETE, FULL TEXT OF MANY RECENT DISSERTATIONS)(PLEASE NOTE: these free Dissertation Search Engines are most certainly not comprehensive -- but -- using them efficiently can allow retrieval of the full text of many recent Dissertations. HINT: One needs to use all of the Search Engines in this listing to retrieve maximum results)
DISSERTATIONS-- LITERATURE REVIEWS --IDEAS AND TUTORIALSfrom KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY, USA
And, RESOURCES ON DOING A LITERATURE REVIEW
DOAJ: DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALSWell over 17,000 Open Access journals are covered; almost all in full-text format. More journals are added every month. IMPORTANT: Please be sure to click the Articles option before executing a search.
ECONOMICS DATABASES AND SEARCH ENGINES(For the latest in Social Science and Economic Research, using PREPRINTS are vital)PREPRINTS provide a truly impressive resource for Social Science, Economic and Political studies on Africa: the index and cover the very latest articles; in most cases, before actual publication:
Arezki, Rabah (2021) Accelerating Africa’s economic transformation. LSE Business Review (21 Sep 2021). Blog Entry.
RELATED TOPIC:FINANCE: THE REAL WORLD OF FINANCE: FINANCE IN REAL LIFE(INCLUDES ECONOMICS LESSON PLANS AS WELL)
EDUCATIONAL THEMES, ISSUES, PRACTICES. AND POLICIESERIC is a free, Open Access Database indexing and covering the most important educational journals.Most articles are available in complete full-text format.ERIC does cover the educational issues, policies, themes, and practices in countries around the world, including African countries.
ERIC = EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH INFORMATION CLEARINGHOUSE
FREE COURSES, COURSE LECTURE NOTES, VIDEO RECORDINGS OF ACTUAL CLASSESIN THE USA are now available from TWO EDUCATIONAL POWERHOUSES: MIT [MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY] andYALE UNIVERSITY:
MIT: ocw.mit.edu (General Website)
OCW SCHOLAR COURSES FROM MIT:"Discover: Designed for anyone interested in mastering foundational subjects at the college level, OCW Scholar courses offer all the resources you need to learn independently. The courses are based on materials MIT students use in classrooms and also include special custom-created content. The materials are arranged in logical sequences and supplemented with multimedia such as video lectures, help-session videos, and simulations. Refresh: OCW Scholar course modules make it easy for you to pick and choose specific topics or units within each course for you to refresh your understanding. You are welcome to download the entire course and work through the material on your computer—without having to connect online. Just note that videos are not included in the zip downloads, though you can still find them on our popular YouTube and iTunesU channels. Grow: OCW Scholar courses make great companions on your lifelong learning journey. Whether you are intent on calculus or chemical bonding, psychology or computer science, OCW Scholar courses make learning a fascinating adventure. You’ll be guided by the same renown instructors that MIT students study with. So go ahead and dive into these courses to extend or brush up your knowledge."
One example of an OCW Scholar course at MIT is PRINCIPLES OF CHEMICAL SCIENCE
Course Features of "Principles of Chemical Science:"
Educator FeaturesCOURSES (FREE) FROM YALE UNIVERSITY: https://oyc.yale.edu/"Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.
MORE RECENT COURSES FROM YALE UNIVERSITY may be found via COURSERA(SCROLL DOWN AND CLICK ON SHOW ALL -- to view all of Yale's courses on COURSERA)
eSCHOLARSHIP REPOSITORY:escholarship.org - Open Access Publications from the University of California -- this resource has well over 300,00 items as of September 2021
"eScholarship provides access to open access publications and research tools..." Includes articles, books, theses, papers, conference materials, journals, and preprints, among other items. ABOUT eSCHOLARSHIP: https://escholarship.org/aboutEschol A sample search on Africa in eScholarship.org retrieved many valuable results.
ELDIS: Sharing the best in global development research for policy and practice.Use the built-in search engine to locate full-text publications and documents on development issues all over the world. ELDIS reports and then catalogs the work of NGOs around the world, such as Poverty, Refugees, Property and Taxation Issues, Trafficking, HIV/AIDS, Climate Change, Diseases, Agriculture, Environmental Issues, Corruption, Girl and Women's Empowerment, among other key topics. KEY ISSUES COVERED IN ELDIS: https://www.eldis.org/keyissuesandcollections
ENGINEERING
(Covers research by African researchers, as well as research on the African continent) For example, this link might be of interest to researchers: https://network.bepress.com/explore/engineering/?q=Africa Two sample articles of potential interest to researchers are these: Socio-ecological Analysis of Artisanal Gold Mining in West Africa: A Case study of Ghana.and Access to Education in Africa via Satellite
Included in the above ENGINEERING RESEARCH WEBSITE is newly offered access to the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers:Access South Africa’s Leading Research Journal’s Entire Collection: the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE) Articles going back to 1909 are now in IEEE Xplore: details here and here and here
Biomedical Engineering for Africa
ESL: TEACHING ENGLISH TO SPEAKERS OF OTHER LANGUAGES(Includes Writing and Composition and free ESL Books, ready to download) (bit.ly/ESLTEA1)ESL/EFL: Shaping the Way We Teach English: Successful Practices Around the WorldIntroduction Appendix, Additional Handouts E-Book Formats
A FREE LITERACY PACK FOR ESL/EFL LEARNERS & TEACHERS
F1000 RESEARCH("F1000Research is an Open Research publishing platform for scientists, scholars and clinicians offering rapid publication of articles and other research outputs without editorial bias. All articles benefit from transparent peer review and editorial guidance on making all source data openly available.") From the About section of the website.
F1000 RESEARCH GATEWAYS (including Agriculture, Food and Nutrition; Emerging Diseases and Outbreaks; Genome Sequencing, among many other subjects)F1000 Research Gateways provides a link to "Submit your Research"
FILM/CINEMA RESEARCH - Updated for 2022/2023(Free scholarly resources for research on Film / Cinema)
FOLKLORE:
FOLKTALES OF MAYOTTE: AN AFRICAN ISLAND"The book uncovers the versatility and literary skills of oral narrators in a small African island. Relying on the researches of three French ethnographers who interviewed storytellers in the 1970s-80s, Lee Haring shows a once-colonised people using verbal art to preserve ancient values in the postcolonial world, when the island of Mayotte was transforming itself from a neglected colony to an overseas department of France. The author’s innovation is to read ethnographic researches as play scripts—to see printed folktales as accounts of live performances. One storyteller after another comments symbolically on what it is like to be a formerly colonised population. Storytelling women, in particular, combine diverse plots and characters to create traditional-sounding stories, which could not have been predicted from the African, Malagasy, Indian, and European traditions coexisting in Mayotte. Haring’s account shows them to be particularly skilled at irony and ambiguity, conveying both submissive and rebellious attitudes in their tales. He makes Mayotte storytelling accessible to a new, English-speaking audience and demonstrates that traditional storytellers in those years were preserving, but also critiquing, their inherited social order in a changing world. Their creative intentions, cultural influences and widely different narrative styles constitute Mayotte’s system of the arts of the word. Literary specialists, folklore enthusiasts, and people who like reading stories will find much to appreciate in this engaging and sophisticated book."
A REVIEW OF FOLKTALES OF MAYOTTE
AN IMPORTANT HINT:TO LOCATE FREE SCHOLARLY ARTICLES ON ALL ASPECTS OF FOLKLORE, PLEASE SEARCH THESE THREE FREE (and excellent) SCHOLARLY DATABASES:GRAFT -and- INTERNET ARCHIVE SCHOLAR -and- COREas well as the OPEN TEXTBOOK LIBRARY for current textbooks on the subject.
A SEARCH ENGINE FOR LOCATING FREE TEXTBOOKS IN ALL SUBJECT AREAS CAN BE FOUND HERE
FREE FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEXTBOOKS(for African Diplomats, Students, and Business Men/Women learning/studying a new language)
FREE TEXTBOOKS IN ALL SUBJECT AREAS: A RESOURCE LIST
STUDENTS AND SCHOLARS: A NEW SEARCH ENGINE THAT SEARCHES FOR FREE TEXTBOOKS IN ALL SUBJECT AREAS IS NOW AVAILABLE: https://bit.ly/FTEATEXT(Created by the 2022 Fulbright Teacher-Scholars hosted by the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville; the F proudly stands for FULBRIGHT.)
FOR FULBRIGHTERS AND FULBRIGHT CANDIDATES:FREE AND ESSENTIAL RESOURCES FOR YOUR SUCCESS(These free resources will also be useful for Applicants to the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders)
FOR THOSE WRITING APPLICATIONS OR a PERSUASIVE ESSAY: THE BELOW --FREELY AVAILABLE-- WRITING TEXTBOOK -with ADVICE and ACTUAL WRITING SAMPLES- WILL BE VERY USEFUL: SUPPLEMENTAL TIPS AND EXPERT ADVICE FROM A NEW TEXTBOOK ON WRITING (from APPENDIX E: LINKS TO SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCES) APPENDIX E is found in this freely downloadable academic textbook on Writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago titled: Integrated Skills: Academic Writing with SourcesMy suggestion is first to download this free textbook, then once downloaded, navigate to APPENDIX E for several other valuable research hints, tips and tricks, and sample essays; all the links within APPENDIX E with then be "clickable." The entire textbook is excellent, and if students have time, the entire textbook should be perused. ALL EXAMPLES and EXPLANATIONS THROUGHOUT THIS FREE TEXTBOOK ARE OUTSTANDING, AND WILL HELP ALL WRITERS HONE THEIR CRAFT. Other Writing Textbooks may be found here
GOOGLE PRODUCTS: TIPS FOR USING EFFICIENTLY
GOOGLE SCHOLAR: INSTRUCTIONS FOR MORE EFFECTIVE USE:
INSTRUCTIONS FOR MORE EFFECTIVE USE OF GOOGLE SCHOLAR:
-- GOOGLE SCHOLAR: HOW TO REFINE YOUR SEARCHES A HOW-TO VIDEO
----A Guide to using GOOGLE SCHOLAR effectively from the UCLA WRITING CENTER:Using Google Scholar; "Discover useful features of Google Scholar to help you find exactly what you're looking for."
----A 3rd useful guide to searching Google Scholar is from a Library Research Guide for Physics: Searching Google Scholar
--- Key Features of Google Scholar -- includes how to do Patent Searches in Google Scholar (from the FreeTech4Teachers website, published on July 31, 2021)
--- How to Use Google Scholar to Find Federal and State Court Rulings
--- Finding an Article in Google Scholar (a Google Drive document)
--- A Google Scholar Trick: Search within citing articles in Google Scholar (from Musingsabout Librarianship.blogspot.com) (This Blog post comes courtesy of Aaron Tay -- currently Library Analytics Manager, Singapore Management University. His experience also includes E-services Faciliator, Senior Librarian at the National University of Singapore Libraries. My thanks to Mr. Tay.)
--- An explanation of GOOGLE SCHOLAR (noting weaknesses and strengths) from an Iowa State University Textbook on Library Research and Information Literacy (from LIBRARY 160
GOOGLE SEARCH TIPS and NEW GOOGLE SEARCH TOOLS(from the FREETECH4TEACHERS Website)
GRAFT: ONE OF THE BEST OPEN ACCESS DATABASES SO FAR -- I USE THIS DATABASE DAILYThe Creator of JURN has also created another incredible search engine covering numerous academic repositories: GRAFT: http://bit.ly/2TBOyvFfrom the Creator of JURN: "GRAFT, my beta ‘all known repositories’ search-engine is still accessible, again via the Google-hosted version… GRAFT : a repository search, searching across full-text and records alike." (MY PERSONAL NOTE: I've used this new search engine and find it absolutely remarkable for finding documents and research I simply could not uncover with Google Scholar. This new search engine covers numerous academic repositories, as well as retrieving select dissertations and master's theses.) You will see a tiny blank search engine at the top left -- use this to search any topic of interest. Try a sample search: Covid and South Africa (as one very simple example)
HISTORY -- see AFRICAN HISTORY
HIV AIDS
IMMIGRATION
INFORMATION LITERACY AND TIPS FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS
The INTERNET ARCHIVE SCHOLAR - searches over 25 million articles and counting!
--A video overview of Internet Archive Scholar -- A Review of The Internet Archive Scholar in College and Research Libraries News (6/2021) - may be found here Formulas for searching this new, free database: Searching the topic of Institutional Repositories in the Internet Archive Scholar: "title" Institutional Repositories year:>2015 this performs a title search for the concept of Institutional Repositories for materials published after 2015 --
Another Example: "title" PAUL ROBESON type: article-journal year:>1965 (this searches for Journal articles about the Singer and Civil Rights Activist, Paul Robeson, after the year 1965, where Paul Robeson appears in the title of the article) Feel free to use this basic formula for other searches you may wish to try in this free, open access database
YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE: "title" CHINATOWN type: article-journal year:>1973 and Film (this formula retrieves articles on the 1974 movie CHINATOWN, where CHINATOWN appears in the title of articles. ("Chinatown" starred Jack Nicholson as a detective who thinks he has seen everything, and Faye Dunaway who harbors a lurid, truly sordid secret that animates the film's plot.)
ONE MORE SEARCH EXAMPLE: To find articles on OER in the Internet Archive Scholar, where the term OER must appear in thetitles of articles for the years 2019 and after, try this search:"title" OER type: article-journal year:>2019(OER = OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES)
In the Internet Archive Scholar, one can also just search for a topic or name directly, e.g. Kwame NkrumahPlease note: The Internet Archive Scholar is one of the very best of the new free Open Access Search Engines.
JSTOR -- OPEN JSTOR -- OA and FREEsee OPEN J-STOR below for a description of this database and a sample search
JURN:JURN: An OPEN ACCESS DATABASE THAT SEARCHES JOURNAL ARTICLES, THESES AND DISSERTATIONSLIST OF JOURNALS INDEXED BY JURN: https://jurnsearch.wordpress.com/directory/ The Creator of JURN has also created another search engine: http://bit.ly/2TBOyvFfrom the Creator of JURN: "GRAFT, my beta ‘all known repositories’ search-engine is still accessible, again via the Google-hosted version… GRAFT : a repository search, searching across full-text and records alike." In the Graft database, a sample search on the following topic reveals the surprising depth of this new and hugely impressive and powerful database:Climate Change Deforestation Carbon
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS RESOURCES FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN SLAVERY, EMANCIPATION, and the SLAVE TRADE(Extensive Library of Congress collections paint a picture of enslaved Africans in America through Oral Interviews and Digitized Papers and Collections.)
Resources also come from the following impressive digitized collections:
The last known slave ship to reach U.S. soil, the Clotilda, arrived in 1860, more than fifty years after the transatlantic slave trade was federally outlawed. This history details the lives of the people it carried, from their kidnappings in West Africa to their deaths in the twentieth century. Durkin, a scholar of slavery and the African diaspora, traces them to communities in Alabama established by the formerly enslaved, such as Africatown and Gee’s Bend, and finds in their stories antecedents for the Harlem Renaissance and the civil- rights movement. "
. Using Data to Discover and Explore the Stories of Enslaved People(Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade brings together datasets from multiple sources the JSTOR website)
. UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND RACE AND RACISM PROJECT(Numerous resources on Africans and African-Americans -- these are valuable historical, archival resources)
PLEASE NOTE: This collection of online resources on Slavery from the Library of Congress and other University Research Centers, including digital archival collections, is hardly comprehensive; rather, it merely hints at the richness and the wealth of digitized resources available to students and scholars on Slavery, and the story of enslaved Africans.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS RESOURCES: A GENERAL LISTING
LITERACY PACK FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS OF ESL/EFL
(ALSO SEE INFORMATION LITERACY and TIPS FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS above)
NEW! ESL WEBSITE
LITERATURE:An Introduction to African and Afro-Diasporic Peoples and Influences in British Literature and Culture before the Industrial RevolutionFunded by the University System of Georgia’s “Affordable Learning Georgia” initiative, An Introduction to African and Afro-Diasporic Peoples and Influences in British Literature and Culture before the Industrial Revolution corrects, expands, and celebrates the presence of the African Diaspora in the study of British Literature, undoing some of the anti-Black history of British studies. FULL-TEXT WORD DOCUMENT HERE: 867193b8bd35f9d223d483190e62e130.docx
LITERATURE:African Literature From the Oral Tradition to Current TrendsAfrican_Literature_From_Oral_Tradition_To_Current_Trends_D_TRAORE.pdf
Selected African Literature & Theater Sources (University of Illinois Libraries)
The Past, Present and Future of African Literature today (UM-Flint)
AFRICAN LITERATURE ON THE INTERNET(COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK CITY)
Africa: Revealed Through Literature: Novels & Short Stories
Exploring Africa: A brief background and history of African literature
A Research Guide for African Studies from Yale University Libraries: AFRICAN LITERATURE
LITERATURE:Africa (for non-English African literatures, see Literature (Other than English): African)
THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLKS by W.E.B. Du Bois(The complete text of this classic text is courtesy of Ryerson University, Toronto)"This 100th Anniversary edition of Du Bois's most widely read book offers significant updates and advantages over all other editions of this classic of African American history. A new Introduction by Manning Marable, Du Bois biographer and eminent historian, puts The Souls of Black Folk into context for 21st Century readers and recounts Du Bois's life-long relationship with his text, which Du Bois continued to rework over many decades. A rarely seen 1953 Re-Introduction by Du Bois is included in this edition, as are the many corrections and changes Du Bois made to the original text during this era. Finally, an explication of the Du Bois text in the new Foreword by Charles Lemert helps the reader better understand the book's historical and current relevance, as does the afterword by Cheryl Townsend Gilkes reflecting on Du Bois's influence on feminism."
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE (from the City University of New York)"African American Literature, is a survey course that will take us from the early days of enslavement to the present. We will read, analyze, and discuss literary texts written by African Americans, paying particular attention to the political, historical and social context that informs these texts."
LITERATURE:Postcolonial Studies @ Emory
Postcolonial Space
Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies -- from --one of the best of the new OER sites:
Sub-disciplines (4)Works (19)Authors (27)
MORE ON RACE, ETHNICITY AND POST-COLONIAL STUDIES
WASAFIRI: INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY WRITING, SHOWCASING EMERGING AFRICAN, ASIAN AND CARIBBEAN AUTHORS, AS WELL AS AUTHORS FROM THE INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT
IMPORTANT LITERARY HINT:FOR FREE SCHOLARLY ARTICLES ON ALL ASPECTS OF AFRICAN LITERATURE AND AFRICAN WRITERS, PLEASE SEARCH THESE TWO FREE SCHOLARLY DATABASES:GRAFT - and- INTERNET ARCHIVE SCHOLAR --as well as free downloadable textbooks available through the OPEN TEXTBOOK LIBRARY
A NEW SEARCH ENGINE COVERING FREE TEXTBOOKS IN ALL ACADEMIC AREAS IS NOW AVAILABLE AT: https://bit.ly/FTEATEXT(Created by Fulbrighters)
MATHEMATICS: offers free textbooks in all areas of Mathematics, plus free tutorials, and calculators
Calculators for Math and Sciences,
MEDICINE, MEDICAL ISSUES, AND GLOBAL HEALTH: PLEASE SEE PMC: PUB MED CENTRAL (Below)
MEDICINE, RELIGION and POLITICS in AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA(A free course from MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Medical Devices Innovation for Africa: enabling industrialisation | UCT Libraries
VIDEO LECTURES ON HEALTH SCIENCES AND PUBLIC HEALTH FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA at IRVINE
VIDEO LECTURES ON MEDICINE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA at IRVINE
Health Sciences Research Skills (from Rutgers University Libraries)
CANCER RESOURCES (from the 1440 website)(:A curation of the best brain-stimulating content on the internet")
PUBLIC HEALTH
*** FREE MEDICAL TEXTBOOKS
**** A NEW SEARCH ENGINE NOW LOCATES FREE ACADEMIC TEXTBOOKS IN ALL SUBJECT AREAS:https://bit.ly/FTEATEXT (Created by the 2022 Fulbright Class at a leading University in the U.S.)
OAISTER: FOR DISCOVERING HISTORICAL AND ARCHIVAL PUBLICATIONS/ DOCUMENTS One also has the option of searching WorldCat using OAISTER's Advanced Search optionTry this Search in OAISTER:Type GOLD COAST AFRICA MAPS using the Advanced Search option -- please type this search phrase in the Keyword (KW:) fieldIn the Format field in the Advanced Search mode, choose Map using the down arrow, then hit enterIn the left margin, you will see an option to refine your search using Open Access (while still in the Advanced Search mode)The Open Access option will retrieve sources that are freely available to anyone.OAISTER is superb for historical and archival material -- of great value to historians or genealogists.
Open Access Books in African Studies, Literary Criticism, and Philosophy(Northwestern University Press)
AFRICAN STUDIES BOOKS FROM NORTHWESTERN
OPEN ACCESS TEXTBOOKS from the UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
OPEN ACCESS FOR AFRICA (OAA) "Cognizant of the challenges faced by students and health workers in developing countries, this site aspires to break the barriers that hamper access to credible scholarly information.OAA offers a succinct orientation on how to optimize online searching and provides links to Open Access Journals, Lectures & Clinical skills, eBooks and Databases.Additionally, the incorporated OAA Search Engine optimizes your search by yielding results from credible websites with Open Access provisions."INCLUDES:
OPEN TEXTBOOK LIBRARY -- CLOSE TO 1,000 TEXTBOOKS IN MOST SUBJECT AREASThis site is searchable, with new books being added monthly. Includes a separate listing of New Books just added. An example of a recent textbook is:Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa
"Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa comprehensively explores the challenges and potential solutions to key conservation issues in Sub-Saharan Africa."
A NEW SEARCH ENGINE SPECIALIZING IN SEARCHING FOR FREE TEXTBOOKS IN ALL SUBJECT AREAS IS NOW AVAILABLE: https://bit.ly/FTEATEXT(Created by the 2022 Fulbright Teacher-Scholars hosted by the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville;the F proudly stands for FULBRIGHT.)
OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES: Producing Open Educational Resources From Scratch: The Case Of Health Sciences At University Of Ghana And Kwame Nkrumah University Of Science And TechnologyOmollo, Kathleen Ludewig; Rahman, Adam; Yebuah, Chris (Commonwealth of Learning, 2012-06) This chapter looks at the production and promotion of health open educational resources (OER) at the University of Ghana (UG) and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). Both institutions initially chose to produce materials from...
Online Knowledge Portals for Development in Africa: scoping study"The Global Open Knowledge Hub (GOKH) programme, implemented by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in collaboration with a range of partners, aims to build a global open knowledge platform for open data sharing and exchange on a broad range of development issues."
OPEN J-STOR: https://about.jstor.org/oa-and-free/
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Science Stories Africa |
Science -- AFRICA
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sciencestoriesafrica.com |
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"Science Stories Africa seeks to bolster public engagement and appreciation of science in Africa by giving innovators a platform to tell their stories to the public. Through the initiative, research scientists receive training in storytelling and then have the opportunity to share their stories in front of a live audience.
The performances are recorded and posted online.
For example, at an event themed "I Almost Gave Up," Misaki Wayengera of Makerere University shared his story of developing a quick, cheap, and easy diagnostic tool to detect ebola.
At another event, Kashub Tumwesigye of the National Agricultural Research Organisation described how a visit to Kampala's largest landfill inspired his team to create a biodegradable plastic bag made from cassava peels.
As of this writing, the organization has trained nine scientists and held two events, with the intention of holding three events each year.
The easiest way to watch the performances is on the YouTube channel, which can be accessed by clicking "Watch Now" on the page linked above.
The organization also posts video clips, news stories, and other content on Twitter (@sciencestories2) and Facebook (@sciencestoriesafrica). Science Stories Africa is a project of the Cornell Alliance for Science." |
(See African History above for the complete review of this resource)
"The Open Knowledge Repository contains the World Bank’s premium research dealing with key aspects of development in Sub-Saharan Africa. This site contains thousands of published books, journal articles, economic and sector studies, working papers, and knowledge briefs.
Some are organized into dedicated collections: Africa Development Forum , Africa’s Pulse, Africa Gender Policy Briefs .
The World Bank’s Africa Region Unit has a number of pillars of work.
The topical spotlights and subregional and country links below provide quick links into the research output on Sub-Saharan Africa. Project and other operational documents can be found on the Documents & Reports site."
From the Internet Scout Report
Built in Africa |
AFRICA --- TECHNOLOGY
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"The language of technology can unite Africa and the African diaspora to work toward sustainable development, according to the team behind Built in Africa (BIA).
BIA is a platform to spotlight technology made in Africa, for Africa, as well as to connect developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and other tech disruptors in Africa and the diaspora.
At the top of the page linked above, readers can click on "Video" to see content highlighting projects ranging from financial and security tech, to energy and consumer electronics.
Readers can click on "Blog" for information on tech projects, tips for getting involved with the African tech industry, and stories from the people shaping this emerging sector.
Readers can sort the Blog contents by categories such as "Developers," "Designers," and "Talent Accelerators." There is also the BIA Podcast, which can be found by scrolling the homepage for links to various listening platforms.
Each podcast episode features a 10-15 minute conversation with a tech trailblazer.
The team behind BIA comes from a range of backgrounds and includes Asafu Thomas, Nathan Hastings-Spaine, Brillian Achieng, and Daniel Nutakor.
BIA (Built in Africa) is active on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram (@builtinafrica.io on all three), or on Twitter (@builtinafrica_)"
Reviewed in the Internet Scout Report for July 2021 |
"SSRN´s eLibrary provides 1,066,119 research papers from 701,821 researchers in more than 65 disciplines."
Searches well over 1 million scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers in all disciplines of the Social Sciences, including Business, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Medicine, and Public Health; 95% are downloadable in full-text format.
"SSRN is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks."
The SSRN Database also indexes hard-core medical and clinical studies, as well as hard-core social science research, such as Vaccine Research, and Social and Racial Equity.
PLEASE NOTE: One does need to create an account to search this database, but, this is exactly like creating a new Facebook account; please do create a login and password you can remember to be able to search this database.
SSRN Year-In-Review 2020 (a Youtube explanation of the SSRN Database)
("From hardcore medical clinical studies https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3696875 to more interdisciplinary analyses of the legal, political, societal, and economic fallout https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3714304, you're sure to find it in SSRN's Coronavirus Hub https://www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/coronavirus/")
THE SSRN YEAR IN REVIEW FOR 2021: SSRN Year In Review 2021 (includes a separate video on how to submit a paper to SSRN)
(SSRN is one of my favorite Open Access Databases; it is powerful and truly impressive and covers many fields outside of the traditional Social Sciences.)
COVERS ALL AREAS OF THE WORLD, INCLUDING AFRICA. (THIS IS A SOPHISTICATED AND POWERFUL SEARCH ENGINE: This Search Engine now covers over 1200 Think Tanks and Research Centers not just in the U.S., but also worldwide, and is a very powerful research tool for students of International Relations and Political Science.)
Another search such as Climate Change and Nigeria or Youth Unemployment in Africa will reveal many items of interest.
The "MOM" Search Engine searches the following collections:
It is my sincere hope that African Researchers and Scientists -- and those students and scholars interested in the African continent -- will find the above free scholarly databases and new search engines to be useful in their own research.
11 Famous African-American Mathematicians |
Black Heroes of Mathematics |
A Modern History of Blacks in Mathematics |
(from DAILY JSTOR)
The Soul of Black Identity: Artist Interviews of the Post-Soul EraThis collection presents more than 75 interviews in which leading figures in music, theater, film and television, dance, literature, comedy, and the visual arts discuss their careers and identities as Black artists. From the U.S. Library of Congress -- the Nation's Library -- preserving History for us all. |
(a free, Open Access Resource)
(Universities in the USA and Canada, IMHO, should publish similar bold statements, geared towards the specific circumstances found on their campuses)
(Look under the RESOURCES TAB at the very top of the Website or the SUBJECTS LIST TAB)
"This class from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) brings anthropological concepts to bear on contemporary movements for justice for harms committed during European colonization in Africa. Over the course of the semester, we use critical readings on topics such as violence, human rights discourse, narrating and measuring harm, memory, and group identity formation to reflect on and contribute to the work of two groups of practitioners currently engaged in claims for justice and reparations for European colonialism in Africa: in Algeria (France), and in the Congo, Burundi, and Rwanda respectively (Belgium.)"
from the Preface
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