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In 'africahistory.net' we present various perspectives on African Indigenous
Knowledge Systems(AIK) from a wide range of scholars. We publish brief extracts
from scholarly works on the subject and focus on several areas. We are proud to
say that this site has been listed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as one of the top 50 of African websites.


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By 2022, about 350 articles – by more than 300 scholars. Peer reviewed…….etc,

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 * A. Indigenous African Science and Technology
 * B. African Food Processing Techniques (Richard Okagbue)
 * C. AIDS/Health Related Readings
 * D. African and African-American Scientists and Inventors
 * E. Africana Journals and Newspapers
 * F. African Regional Sites
 * G General and Archival Sources Related to Africa
 * H. Africa Related Institutions
 * I. Specialized Aspects of African Studies
 * J. African Cinema
 * K. Black Scholarly and Popular Sites
 * L. African Universities
 * M. Publishers/Multi Media Resources
 * N. Africa Radio and Television Programs
 * O. Center for the Study and Research of AfricanWomen in Cinema (Director:
   Beti Ellerson)
 * P. HORACE CAMPBELL.NET - An incisive,scholarlycommentary on current Africa-
   related events
 * Q. INDILINGA, African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems
 * R. NDIGOKAFE: The Portal for African Literatures,Writers and Film
 * S. Abstracts from the Conference on AfricanScience and Knowledge Systems.

A. INDIGENOUS AFRICAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

African Food Processing Techniques (Richard Okagbue)

    African Textile Techniques (Phillip Shea)

    African Metallurgy (Olayemi Akinwumi)

Colonialism and Africa’s Technology (Gloria Emeagwali)

Mathematics in pre-colonial Hausaland, West Africa (Ahmad Kani)

Psychology: African Dimensions (Bruce Bynum)

Ancient Egyptian Astronomy(Theophile Obenga)

Eurocentrism and the History of Science (Gloria Emeagwali)

African Fractals-Modern Computing and Indigenous Design(Ron Eglash)

Video presentation: Courtesy Ron Eglash & www.TED.com

Geometry from Africa(Paulus Gerdes)

African Investigations into Space and Time ( Astronomy) (Charles Finch)

Critique of Braudel

Ancient Egyptian Mathematics (Beatrice Lumpkin)

Constraints on Africa’s Growth:The IMF and AFRICA -Structural Adjustment (Gloria
Emeagwali)

African Indigenous Knowledge Systems/Curriculum (Gloria Emeagwali)

San/Pfizer Benefit Sharing Agreement on Dietary Drug, South Africa

Adire Textiles (Duncan)

B. AFRICAN FOOD PROCESSING TECHNIQUES (RICHARD OKAGBUE)

  African Rice Technologies in the Carolinas,USA

 African American Quilts

African Metallurgy in the Caribbean

African Ironmaking Culture among African American Ironworkers

C. AIDS/HEALTH RELATED READINGS

Leonard Horowitz, Emerging Viruses, AIDS And Ebola: Nature, Accident OR
Intentional? Tetrahedron, Idaho, 2000. Publisher Contact:298-265-2775 (Fax)
Edward Hooper/ Bill Hamilton,THE RIVER- A Journey To The Source OF HIV AND AIDS
An Illuminating and scholarly text on polio vaccines, designer viruses and the
AIDS Holocaust. Note that the IMF continues to insist on the removal of
subsidies on health in African countries with callous disregard for the
unfolding AIDS pandemic. Water privatization may be good business for
International Water Limited (IWL), a subsidiary of BECHTEL but may be a death
sentence for the sick and ailing.

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For an illuminating insight into Bio- Terrorism in Apartheid South Africa, see:

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In the Public Hearings of South Africa’s ” Truth and Reconciliation Commission”
1996-1999, some AIDS- related confessions were made by former supporters of the
apartheid regime. Scholars are reflecting on the full implications of these
confessions for understanding the AIDS pandemic in South Africa and the former
frontline states.

On Contaminated Polio and Meningitis Vaccines, note the following: Dr Haruna
Kaita of the Department of Pharmaceuticals, Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria
commented on the contaminants identified in the WHO sponsored Oral Polio
Vaccines of February 2004 in the Weekly Trust, Kaduna, Nigeria.

For an interview of Dr. Tijjani Namiye, the Advisor to the Governor of Kano
State, Nigeria, on this incident,see Africa Update vol. 1.4.2004 Pfizer to pay
?50m after deaths of Nigerian children in drug trial experiment Out of court
settlement in the case that inspired ‘The Constant Gardener’ By Daniel Howden,
Africa Correspondent Monday, 6 April 2009, The Independent [UK] ……….. In 1996,
the company needed a human trial for what it hoped would be a pharmaceutical
“blockbuster”, a broad spectrum antibiotic that could be taken in tablet form.
The US-based company sent a team of its doctors into the Nigerian slum city of
Kano in the midst of an appaling meningitis epidemic to perform what it calls a
“humanitarian mission”. However the accusers claim it was an unlicensed medical
trial on critically-ill children. A team of Pfizer doctors reached the Nigerian
camp just as the outbreak, which killed at least 11,000 people, was peaking.
They set themselves up within metres of a medical station run by the aid group
M?decins Sans Fronti?res, which was dispensing proven treatments to ease the
epidemic. From the crowd that had gathered at the Kano Infectious Diseases
Hospital, 200 sick children were picked. Half were given doses of the
experimental Pfizer drug called Trovan and the others were treated with a proven
antibiotic from a rival company. Eleven of the children died and many more, it
is alleged, later suffered serious side-effects ranging from organ failure to
brain damage. But with meningitis, cholera and measles still raging and crowds
still queueing at the fence of the camp, the Pfizer team packed up after two
weeks and left. That would probably have been an end to the story if it weren’t
for Pfizer employee, Juan Walterspiel. About 18 months after the medical trial
he wrote a letter to the then chief executive of the company, William Steere,
saying that the trial had “violated ethical rules”. Mr Walterspiel was fired a
day later for reasons “unrelated” to the letter, insists Pfizer……… “The strategy
of big companies when they are dealing with smaller opponents is to stretch the
process, to overwhelm us until we are ready to accept whatever they want to
offer.” Trovan never became the blockbuster that Pfizer had hoped for and it is
no longer in production. The EU has banned the drug and it has been withdrawn
from sale in the US……. It appears that Pfizer has finally ended the public
relations nightmare with Friday’s settlement. I’m glad we remained the constant
gardener and could see this come to fruition………” In November 2002, Nigerian
scientist Professor Emitan Abisogun Bababunmi, Professor of Biochemistry secured
a US patent for an AIDS- related drug. His drug arrests skeletal muscle
degeneration and ‘slim disease’at a relatively cheap cost. (Pan African News
Agency)

D. AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN SCIENTISTS AND INVENTORS

History of Mathematics in Africa (AMUCHMA)

Mathematicians of the African Diaspora/Ancient and Contemporary Africana
Mathematicians (Williams)

Mark Dean,Computer Scientist

Mark Dean is an African-American electrical engineer and computer scientist who
holds more than 20 US patents, including three of IBM’s original nine personal
computer patents. One of the technical and innovative driving forces behind the
personal computer, Dean was recently inducted into the National Inventors Hall
of Fame, one of only a handful of African- Americans who have been selected for
that honor.Today’s desktop computers exist in part because of Dean’s research.
One of his earliest inventions was the Industry Standard Architecture ‘bus,’ a
user interface that permitted devices such as the keyboard, disk drives, and
printers to be connected to the motherboard. He developed a method for
displaying color on monitors, helped design several PS/2 subsystems, and tested
the first gigahertz CMOS microprocessor. Dean was also instrumental in
developing the unique cellular structure of IBM’s signature Blue Gene
supercomputer.’ Extract from ScienceDaily.com. July 1,2007.

The Inventive Spirit of African Americans (Patricia Carter Sluby)

E. AFRICANA JOURNALS AND NEWSPAPERS

Pambazuka News

Africa Action

Haiti Action Committee

 Radio France Internationale

All Africa

Africalog

NewsWatch Nigeria

Africa Intelligence (France)

Africa Studies Quarterly (University of Florida)

Africa Update(Central Connecticut State University)

F. AFRICAN REGIONAL SITES

Ancient Egypt (Tour Egypt.net/village)

Egyptology.com

f.Nubia(Abubakr Sidahmed)

IOWA’s AFRICAN ART and LIFE PROJECT(Christopher Roy)

 

G GENERAL AND ARCHIVAL SOURCES RELATED TO AFRICA

d.Explaining Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade(Gloria Emeagwali/West Africa
Review)

H. AFRICA RELATED INSTITUTIONS

African Studies – Stanford University (Karen Fung)

 African Studies at UPenn

African Studies Association (ASA)

Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa

PANAFSTRAG

I. SPECIALIZED ASPECTS OF AFRICAN STUDIES

African Literature of French Expression

Feminism in Africa

J. AFRICAN CINEMA

African Women In Cinema (Ellerson)

African Film Festival (ARTMATTAN Production, New York)

Ctenter for African Women in Cinema(Beti Ellerson)

The Nigerian Film Industry(Africa Update. vol. x1.2.2004)

African Cinema:Gloria Emeagwali Interviews Souleymane Cisse (Harvard University)

California Newsreel

Samba Gadjigo: “Ousmane Sembene: The Life of a Revolutionary Artist (California
Newsreel)

African Film Festival ( New York)

Film Studies For Free

TUNDE KELANI’s MAINFRAME MOVIES

K. BLACK SCHOLARLY AND POPULAR SITES

Jonathan Cambry: Classical Pianist par excellence

The Black Engineer

Vibe

Black Collegian

Resources on Malcolmn X

Black Facts Online

Mosaic Books

Jeune Afrique

Bob Marley, THE KING

California Newsreel(African/African-American)

L. AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES

University of Swaziland

Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal

Dar Es Salaam University, Tanzania

Botswana University,Botswana

University of Cape Town, South Africa

Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique

M. PUBLISHERS/MULTI MEDIA RESOURCES

Abridged Bibliography of Africa

Abidjan Net

N. AFRICA RADIO AND TELEVISION PROGRAMS

Abridged Bibliography of Africa

Abidjan Net

O. CENTER FOR THE STUDY AND RESEARCH OF AFRICANWOMEN IN CINEMA (DIRECTOR: BETI
ELLERSON)

Center for the Study and Research of African Women in Cinema (Director: Beti
Ellerson)

P. HORACE CAMPBELL.NET - AN INCISIVE,SCHOLARLYCOMMENTARY ON CURRENT AFRICA-
RELATED EVENTS

HORACE CAMPBELL.NET – An incisive,scholarly commentary on current Africa-
related events

Q. INDILINGA, AFRICAN JOURNAL OF INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS

INDILINGA, African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems

R. NDIGOKAFE: THE PORTAL FOR AFRICAN LITERATURES,WRITERS AND FILM

NDIGOKAFE: The Portal for African Literatures,Writers and Film

S. ABSTRACTS FROM THE CONFERENCE ON AFRICANSCIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS.

OCTOBER 2006, NASARAWA STATE UNIVERSITY, KEFFI, NIGERIA.




In 'africahistory.net' we present various perspectives on African Indigenous
Knowledge Systems(AIK) from a wide range of scholars. We publish brief extracts
from scholarly works on the subject and focus on several areas. We are proud to
say that this site has been listed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as one of the top 50 of African websites.

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