Category:Africa
News
Currently, there is a humanitarian emergency in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a failed state with a long-running civil war, fuelled by factions trying to control resources such as diamonds and the coltan in our cell phones, laptops and game consoles. Systematic rape is happnening on an enormous scale. The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo here is an audio interview with Robin Pennn Warren and others (1/09). Harden in the course reader provides background (updated info on Congo Gorillas here),background on current civil war in DR Congo.
UCSC Library Resources
African Studies Research Guide A good starting point
Database:
Africa-Wide: NiPAD Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. UCSC access is limited to one concurrent user. Searachable database of information on all aspects of Africa. Topics covered include politics, history, economics, business, mining, natural sciences, environment, development, social issues, anthropology, literature, language, law, music, and tourism. Sources include books, journal and magazine articles, radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, pamphlets, maps, reports, theses and music recordings. Subject area(s): Humanities, Social Sciences.
Maps
UN map of Africa showing effects of Global Warming.
General Websites
Africa Policy Information Center
Video
Charlie Rose is an excellent PBS interview series. Here, for example, he discusses foreign aid and development with Peter Singer, author of "The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty" as well as social entrepreneur Jacqueline Novogratz and aid critic and Africa scholar Dambisa Moyo.
Botanist Corneille Ewango talks about his work at the Okapi Faunal Reserve in the Congo Basin -- and his heroic work protecting it from poachers, miners and raging civil wars (TEDtalk).
In this five minute TEDTalk, William Kamkwamba, a 14 year old African discusses how he built windmill video
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the first female Finance Minister in Nigeria, attacked corruption to make the country more desirable for foreign investment and job creation. Now as a director of the World Bank and head of the Makeda Fund, she works for change in all of Africa. TEDtalk video
People
UCSC alum Nina Grove, formerly of Genentech, works on malaria in Africa.
Marc Ona Essangui winner 2009 Goldman Prize. In Gabon, a country without a culture of civic engagement, Marc Ona led efforts to publicly expose the unlawful agreements behind a huge mining project threatening the sensitive ecosystems of Gabon’s equatorial rainforests. Ona’s efforts led to an unprecedented victory for civil society in Gabon, with the government adopting new environmental oversight regulations and significantly reducing the size of the mining concession.
Articles in category "Africa"
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