Get Connected: Links in Pan-African Studies & Beyond

• Excerpt from the new 'Before the Mayflower: The African-American Century'
  This revised edition of a Black history classic says Blacks shaped and colored America's 20th century - Excerpt: Ebony Magazine, July 2003 by Lerone Bennett, Jr.


• Top Ten Search Engines
  ...and how to use them!


• About.com
  This site offers expert guidance on searching the Internet for the information, goods, and services that you need to know related to your passion. Without question, bookmark this site! Users can find answers to almost anything about everything. Students in Africana Studies will find a host of links to original documents and interesting articles. Need to write a paper quickly, go here! However, always respect copyright laws. Whatever you do, don't plagarize. Quote and reference, quote and reference.


• LearnTheNet.com
  Another site that offers an extensive amount of information on the Web, how to use it, its history, resources, and more.
  
  
• Build a Website
  Learn to design and build your own Website.
  
  
• Inventors
  An About.com site dedicated to compiling information about inventors, their contributions, and technology. An excellent site to keep abreast of technology. Read about the extensive contributions made by African Americans to the American industrial and technological revolutions from century to century.


• The Constitution Society
  The Constitution Society is a private non-profit organization dedicated to research and public education on the principles of constitutional republican government. It publishes documentation, engages in litigation, and organizes local citizens groups to work for reform. Its aim is to eventually provide almost everything a citizen needs to accurately decide what is and is not constitutional in most situations, and what one is required to do relative to a particular constitution.
  
  Although the organization was founded in response to the growing concern that noncompliance with the Constitution for the United States of America and most state constitutions is creating a crisis of legitimacy that threatens freedom and civil rights, coverage also includes the rest of the world, and private as well as public organizations.
  
  The Society maintains that the principles of constitutional republicanism are universal, and applicable to all nations, although not well understood or upheld by most. It also examines the related principles of federalism and nomocracy (the rule of law), of nomology (the science of law), and shows how those principles are applicable to solving the fundamental problem of avoiding excessive or unbalanced concentrations of power.


• The Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia: The Slave Trade, 1700-1930
  A depository of materials related to the TransAtlantic Slave Trade, including slave narratives, biographies, abolitionists and anti-slavery movements, issues and events, legislation, and more. Created in the United Kingdom, The Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia is invaluable for students of Africana Studies to be able to look at slavery and US history through another cultural lens.


• The Kamusi Project
  The Internet Living Swahili Dictionary is a collaborative work by people all over the world. The project is working to establish new dictionaries of the Swahili language - Kiswahili - both within Swahili and between Swahili and English.


• Africa Within
  A digital library whose primary purpose is to share information and research. An ongoing work compilation many years in the making, the goal for Africa Within is to become a primary reference tool for the serious student, as well as a research tool for those looking to expand or begin their Africana studies. Much of the information on the site has been gleaned from other sources on the Web, and includes documents, pictures, notes, other types of reference materials, and resources.

• http://www.africaresource.com
  
• http://www.allafrica.com
  
• Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations
  
• http://www.africawithin.com/clarke/clarke_on_diop.htm
  
• The Institute of Karmic Guidance
  
• http://www.nationalcouncilforblackstudies.com