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

Journal Internet Assignments:

• 16 January: Explore H-SAfrica, a listserv devoted to South African history and culture and maintained by H-NET Humanities and Social Sciences On-Line staff at Michigan State University. Identify the most important sections of H-SAfrica 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
• 23 January: Explore The African National Congress. Discuss its structure and choose a section to examine in detail.
  
• 30 January: Explore both the The Khoesan web site of David Boyce and the San Information web site of Art and Life in Africa. Who are the Khoesan and why are they so important to human origins?
• 6 February: Explore the history and culture of the Xhosa, National Rural Health Initiative
• 13 February: Discuss the History of the Zulu Nation (Zulu Kingdom) and Culture of Zulu Women (UCLA).
• 20 February: Explore the events and implications of Isandlwana, Ian Knight.
• 27 February: Explore the life of Cecil Rhodes, Wikipedia.
• 6 March: The Rivonia Trial, The ANC, from the source From Protest to Challenge. A Documentary History of South African Politics in South Africa, 1882-1964. Volume 3, Challenge and Violence, 1953-1964, pp. 673-684, by Thomas Karis and Gail M. Gerhart, Hoover Institution Press, 1977.
• 20 March: 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.
• 27 March: Discuss Dr. Wilburn's paper, Revolution in South Africa: Albert John Luthuli, Rolihlahla Nelson Dalibunga Mandela, and the African National Congress, 27 September 1997; pay particular attention to links to primary sources.
• 3 April: Read the Nobel Foundation's biography of Nadine Gordimer and her Nobel Lecture. Discuss her life and how she relates to humanity and existence.
• 10 April: Discuss the similarities and differences between the Freedom Charter and the Declaration of Independence.
• 17 April: Compare the Rhodes Trust and its history with the The Mandela Rhodes Foundation.

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
• 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
• Dlamini, Cedza; Nelson Mandela's Grandson's Home Page; emphasizing the African initiative of youth between the private and public sectors
• Geneaology of South African Royal Families and Ethnic Groups, World Statesmen Organization.
• 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
• The Mandela Rhodes Foundation, the partnership between the legacies of Nelson Mandela and Cecil Rhodes
• Revolution in South Africa, Symposium on History and the Social Studies, 26 September 1997, ECU
• Wonders of the African World, an H-Africa thread on the video series, 2-7 November 1999, H-Net, Michigan State University