Click on/select your Internet assignment below and follow instructions given in class.

Journal Internet Assignments:

• 27 August: Explore H-Africa, a listserv of the H-NET Humanities and Social Sciences On-Line. Identify the most important sections of H-Africa and the audience. Also calculate your birthday according to the Islamic calendar and print out the result. Calculate the Muslim prayer times for Greenville, NC for the present date and print out the result. Summarize and react to the introduction to the Muslim calendar:
  
  • Muslim Calendar Converter, Hijra/Gregorian and Gregorian/Hijra dates converter; Introduction to the Hijra Calendar and Muslim Daily Prayer Times for Greenville, NC, Wasat Alnaseej
• 3 September: Explore Ancient Egypt, British Museum
  
• 10 September: Read V.Y. Mudimbe's review of Black Athena. Discuss the book's thesis, contents, and the author's evaluation. We will watch a documentary on Volume One in class.
• 17 September: Compare and contrast the Asante and Kuba sections of "Introduction: Diffusion and other Problems in the History of African States," Art and Life in Africa Project, James Giblin, Department of History, The University of Iowa
• 24 September: Two online papers consider our class film, Keita: The Heritage of the Griot. Discuss the issues raised in The Past to Future Keita, Dawn Hendrix and The Significance of the Griot, Eli Smith, students of Cora Agatucci, Central Oregon Community College. We will watch the film in class.
• 1 October: ECU's School of Art's Museum Without Walls contains some 135 Kuba and 9 Bushoong works of art. View, summarize, and react to 20 of them. Here's how: go to the web site's search engine at http://web.lib.ecu.edu/africanart. In the "Search For" space type in Bushoong. Leave the other criteria alone. Then click on "Start Search." View the 5 scanned pieces and commentary (ignore the 4 pieces not yet scanned.) Click on each thumbnail; this enlarges the image and often provides much more written detail. Return to the search engine, click "Reset," and type in Kuba. Again, leave the other criteria alone. Click on "Start Search." Now scroll through the 135 thumbnails that appear. Choose 15 favorites. Click on each of your 15 thumbnail choices, look at the piece carefully and read about its origin and context. As with all net entries, limit this Bushoong-Kuba assignment to a one-page summary/reaction entry.
• 8 October: Explore "Key Moments in Life", Chapter in Art and Life in Africa Project, The University of Iowa
• 15 October: Explore "Manu Herbstein discusses Ama," The Postcolonial Web
• 22 October: Links for the Project on Reparations:
  • Statement of the Honorable Chaka Fattah of Pennsylvania, 25 May 2001
  • The Apology for Slavery Resolution of 2000, H. CON. Res. 356, Congressman Tony Hall and Co-sponsors, US Government Documents
  • The Apology for Slavery Resolution of 2008, Congressman Steve Cohen and Co-sponsors, NPR, 29 July 2008
  • House Resolution 40, The Commission to Study Reparations Proposals for African American Act (H.R. 3745 IH), 1989
  • Joint Resolution on Slavery, General Assembly of North Carolina, Session 2007, Ratified Bill, Resolution 2007-21, Senate Joint Resolution 1557, 12 April 2007
• 29 October: Explore Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Official Web Site
• 5 November: Write a summary/reaction entry on the history of the African ethnic group of your choice using scholarly online resources.
• 12 November: Compare and contrast hardcopy handouts: Kenneth Onwuka Dike and Cheikh Anta Diop.
• 19 November: Explore the Heritage Section of the web site, "Robben Island," including its sub-sections entitled Historical Gallery (explore its links of Historical Figures and Historical Sites), Chronology, and Literature.

Extra Credit Assignments:

• "An A to Z of African Studies on the Internet," Peter Limb, Michigan State University
• African Country Home Pages, Ali B. Ali-Dinar, University of Pennsylvania
• African Studies Committee Home Page, a rich list of Africana hyperlinks, East Carolina University
• African Studies Thesaurus, African Studies Centre, University of Leiden
• African Voices, explores our African connections, National Museum of Natural History
• Africana Reviews, H-Africa, a listserv of the H-NET Humanities and Social Sciences On-Line
• Afrocentricity, Definitions of, an H-Africa thread, H-Net, Michigan State University, August-September 2000
• Ama HomePage, Manu Herbstein
• Ancient Egypt, British Museum
• Art and Life in Africa Project; African ethnic groups discussed include the Bushoong, Kuba, San, Shona, Swahili, and Zulu, Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, the University of Iowa
  • Discussion of the Asante and the Luba and Kuba, excerpted from "Introduction: Diffusion and other Problems in the History of African States," Art and Life in Africa Project, James Giblin, Department of History, The University of Iowa
  • "Issues in African History", Art and Life in Africa Project, James Giblin, Department of History, The University of Iowa
  • "Key Moments in Life", Chapter in Art and Life in Africa Project, The University of Iowa
• Black Athena
  • Black Athena Revisited, Los Angeles Times, H-Africa, H-Net, 3 July 1996
  • Black Athena Revisited, Roland Oliver, H-Africa, H-Net, 7 August 1996
  • Black Athena Revisited, Michael Dow, H-Africa, H-Net, 20 August 1996
• Democratic Republic of Congo [Zaire], courtesy Ali B. Dinar, University of Pennsylvania
• Explore Paleoanthropology in Africa, Jim Foley
• Ibn Battuta's Trip: Part Twelve - Journey to West Africa (1351 - 1353), Ross Dunn and Nick Bartel
• Gordimer, Nadine:
  • Nadine Gordimer, The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
  • Nadine Gordimer, United Nations Development Programme, South Africa
  • Nadine Gordimer's Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1991 and Photo, Nobel Foundation
• H-AFRICA, a listserv of the H-NET Humanities and Social Sciences On-Line
• Human Evolution: "The Out of Africa Hypothesis" and "The Multiregional Hypothesis"; essays by James Q. Jacobs
• Keita: The Heritage of the Griot:
  • The Past to Future Keita, Dawn Hendrix, Discussion Paper, Fall 1998, for Cora Agatucci's Culture(s) & Literature(s) of Africa, Central Oregan Community College
  • The Significance of the Griot, Eli Smith, Fall 2000, for Cora Agatucci's Culture(s) & Literature(s) of Africa, Central Oregan Community College
• Leo Africanus: Description of Timbuktu, The Description of Africa (1526), in Reading About the World, Volume 2, edited by Paul Brians, Mary Gallwey, Douglas Hughes
• Reparations:
  • Statement of the Honorable Chaka Fattah of Pennsylvania, 25 May 2001
  • The Apology for Slavery Resolution of 2000, H. CON. Res. 356, Congressman Tony Hall and Co-sponsors, US Government Documents
  • House Resolution 40, Congressman John Conyers's sponsorship statement, 2000
  • House Resolution 40, The Commission to Study Reparations Proposals for African American Act (H.R. 3745 IH), 1989
• Revolution in South Africa, Symposium on History and the Social Studies, 26 September 1997, ECU
• Explore Ngugi wa Thiong'o, The Africa Centre, London
• Taiwo, Olufemi, "Exorcising Hegel's Ghost: Africa's Challenge to Philosophy," African Studies Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue 4, University of Florida
• Wonders of the African World, an H-Africa thread on the video series, 2-7 November 1999, H-Net, Michigan State University