African studies at NTNU Library

We have many useful resources for those of you interested

in Africa and African studies; these include both free and licenced resources.

http://thetalkingdrum.com/africamap.html

NTNU is a member of the AEGIS network

AEGIS is a network of European research/study centres which aims to create synergies between experts and institutions.

AEGISA network of excellence in African

studies

Primary emphasis is placed on the Social Sciences and Humanities and AEGIS' main goal is to improve understanding of contemporary African societies.”

University of Botswana

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/celte/outreach/botswana/?textOnly=true

• a) Some books • b) Some articles

• c) Crawl our available internet resources, both licenced and free

• d) Our collected internet resources, both

licenced and free, http://ubitlibrary.blogspot.com.

What is Africa really like?

Our printed resources

We have an extensive collection of printed books about Africa on different subjects: geography, history, linguistics, medicine, social anthropology, etc. We also have several journals about Africa.

Elections in the Congo2006

• Cheri-Cherin: "DEMON-CRATIE", oil on canvas, 80 x 135 cm, 2004 http://members.surfeu.at/nina.horvath/elections1.htm

Online resources-1-

• We also have access to eBooks in PDF format.

We provide access to several available databases:

• Africa wide : NiPAD

• Geobase

• ISI

• Jstor

• Pubmed

• Sociological Abstracts (CSA)

Online resources-2-

The Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala’s online resources are some of the best available. They have several useful links and freely available publications in PDF format.

“A Guide to Africa on the internet”.

Cape Town

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=17054

Online resources-3-African studies, Geography and Social Anthropology

resources are collected on a shared blog #

http://ubitlibrary.blogspot.com/

Online resources-4-Africa-Wide:NIPAD

• A specialized licenced database focusing on Africa:

Research librarian

As research librarian for African Studies, I take a great interest in both buying new printed books, journals and maintaining/collecting useful online resources both licenced and free.

Mount Kenya

• http://www.safari.as/Kilimanjaro2/Kilimanjaro2.html

Display case

In our library at NTNU, Dragvoll, we have a small display case with books and bookcovers from our own collections to show some of the literature available.

GHANA in a display casein our library

Since the 22th of February until April we have focus on Ghana and the celebration of the countries 50 years independence from colonial rulership.

Marked in AccraCapital of Ghana

http://www.galenfrysinger.com/ghana_accra.htm

University of GhanaLegon

Library building

• http://www.galenfrysinger.com/ghana_accra.htm

Africa is more than just AIDS, hunger…

The beauty of Africa is often forgotten in the constant portrayal of Africa as a poor continent.

Take a look at the italian photographer Gianni Giansanti’s photographic journey into remote areas of Ethiopia.

Photograph by Gianni Giansanti

Photograph by Gianni Giansanti

Photograph by Gianni Giansanti

More books…

African studies-”Fagområde:Afrikakunnskap”

From the ntnu.no/ub url you could by clicking “Fagområder” in the left menu access collected resources for African Studies by clicking and choosing “Afrikakunnskap” in the next screen.