1. Africa
   A Directory of Resources
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1988
   
2. Africa in Crisis
   The Causes, The Cures of Environmental Bankruptcy
   Resource Type: Book
   
3. Africa in the 1990's
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1991
   
4. African-Americans and Black Oppressors
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   
5. An African Village Two decades of change in an African Village
   New Internationalist May 2006 - #389
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 2006
   A look at the lives of people living in African villages and how things have improved.
6. After the Party
   Corruption and the ANC
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2009
   Andrew Feinstein is a former member of the African National Congress, and a critic of corruption within the congress. In his analysis, Feinstein discusses things such as the repression of debate within the party, lack of investigations into arms deals, and a failure to criticize Mugabe's rule in Zimbabwe.
7. Apartheid, Militarism and the U.S. Southeast
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1990
   This is an easy to understand economic report on the joint relation between U.S. policies in Africa and jobs, income and investment in the U. S. Southeast. Seidman examines how the daily realities of life are shaped by the American support of apartheid.
8. The Arusha Declaration
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1967
   Tanganyika African National Union's policy on Socialism and Self-Reliance.
   
9. The AT Reader
   Theory and Practice in Appropriate Technology
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1985
   
10. “Civilising” the “Blacks”; Why Britain needs to Maintain Her African Possessions
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1936
    Africans must win their own freedom. Nobody will win it for them. They need co-operation, but that co-operation must be with the revolutionary movement in Europe and Asia. There is no other way out. Each movement will neglect the other at its peril.
    
11. Class and Colour in South Africa 1850-1950
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    A historical and sociological overview which provides a critical analysis of the Labour and National movements in South Africa and explores how and why the white working class traded its socialist principles for a share of white power. Also examines the interactions between the two wings of the resistance against white domination.
12. The Concept of Human Rights in Africa
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    
13. Connexions Library: Africa Focus
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Africa.
14. Dilemmas of Domination
    The Unmaking of the American Empire
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    Argues that in a not-too-distant future the American empire's hidden weaknesses will pose fatal challenges to American supremacy.
15. The Earthscan Action Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
16. An Economic History of West Africa
    Resource Type: Book
    An examination of the economy of West Africa from the fifteenth to the twentieth century.
17. Global Visions
    Beyond the News World Order
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    This book seeks to establish how our diverse globalizing world can be turned into a common home. The authors create a dialogue about the two types of globalization occurring in the world: globalization from above and globalization from below.
18. A Green History of the World 
    The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    Ponting tracks the "green" history of the world showing how throughout history civilizations have collapsed when they exhausted the earth's natural resources.
19. Harvest of Devastation
    The Industrialization of Agriculture and its Human and Environmental Consequences
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Explains how western farming practices being imposed in other countries harm peasant communities, indigenous cultures, and the ecology.
20. Inter-Church Coalition on Africa
    Organization profile published 1983
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1983
    
21. Land, Food, Freedom
    Struggles for the Gendered Commons in Kenya
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    
22. Manifestos, Programs, Visions 
    Selected Manifestos - Political Statements - Programs
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1649   Published: 2009
    A selection of left manifestos, programs, poltical statements and visions from the 1600s to today.
23. Marxism and Anti-Imperialism in Africa
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A collection of writings by leaders of the Anti-Imperialist and Anti-apartheid movement and Marxists in Africa, and documents by and about all varieties of socialism in Sub-Saharan Africa.
24. Mass Communications and American Empire
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    An in-depth look at international and domestic media, and the effect of capitalism on mass communications.
25. New Internationalist Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from the New Internationalist, chat forum, ethical shopping, more.
26. The Next Liberation Struggle
    Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy in Southern Africa
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    An indispensable guide to understanding how the resources of that era can be used to contribute to real liberation for the region and for the continent of Africa as a whole.
27. The Next Liberation Struggle
    Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy in Southern Africa
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    Integrates the concrete observations of a seasoned observer and participant in southern African liberation struggles with analysis of and reflection on the large question of the place of southern Africa within the global capitalist order and its capacities to contribute toward remaking that global order.
28. The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    Ransom suggests that fair, environmentally-conscious trade is not only a viable alternative to unfair free trade, but that it is the way of the future.
29. Out of Africa: A Migrant's Story
    New Internationalist June 2005 - #379
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2005
    An issue on the story of a nurse's return back to Kenya and the reason why she has worked so far away from home. Also, a discussion on a widespread crisis in international healthcare and the human costs of our global free-market economy
30. The People vs. Global Capital
    The G-7, NTCs, SAPs, and Human Rights
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    This book includes testimony presented to the Tribunal, the text of the Tribunal's indictment, and proposals for follow-up to the event.
31. The Political Economy of Health
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979   Published: 1889
    
32. Race Against Time
    Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005   Published: 2006
    This book is a compilation of the 2005 Massey Lectures on the topic of the Millennium Development Goals, with a special focus on AIDS in Africa. Lewis' lectures are personal and passionate in their denunciation of the international community's response to the AIDS pandemic and poverty in Africa.
33. Revolutionary Traveller
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    John S. Saul draws on a series of his own occasional articles written over a span of forty years which, together with a linking narrative, serve to trace not only his own career as an anti-apartheid and liberation support movement activist in both Canada and southern Africa but also help recount the history of the various struggles in both venues in which he has been directly involved.
34. Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981   Published: 1982
    Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx—From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
    
35. Saving the Tropical Forest
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Growing numbers of people around the world are developing techniques and practices to promote the wise use and preservation of our remaining forests. The authors believe that the time has come to improve the existing alternatives or it will fail.
36. The Scramble for Africa
    White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991   Published: 2003
    Describes the brief vicious scramble by Europe's imperial powers to seize colonies throughout the continent of Africa. Pakenham strips the impresarios of imperialism of their veneer of Victorian heroism and reputations for statemanlike vision, to reveal them as men with bloated and often vicious egos.
    
37. The Silent Revolution in Africa
    Debt, Development and Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Cheru ascribes the crisis in Africa to its origins as export-led development rather than the natural factors such as drought and famine. He praises the evolution of ordinary Africans opting out of the formal market and the IMF.
38. The Slave Trade
    The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440 - 1870
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    A comprehensive history of the Atlantic slave trade in which approximiately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses.
    
39. Street Level Democracy
    Political Settings at the Margins of Global Power
    Resource Type: Book
    
40. Take a STAND Canada. An Interview on the Darfur advocacy group’s path to success with director Ben Fine
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    An interview on the Darfur advocacy groups's path to success with director Ben Fine.
41. Wars for Africa's wealth
    New Internationalist May 2004
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2004
    Discussion of the wealth in Africa, and the wars and violence which it has fuelled.
42. We Are the Poors
    Community Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    Follows the growth of the most unexpected community movements, beginning in one township of Durban, linking up with community and labor struggles in other parts of the country, and coming together in massive anti-government protests at the time of the UN World Conference Against Racism in 2001.
43. World Human Rights Guide, Third Edition
    A Comprehensive, Up-to-date Survey of the Human Rights Records of 104 Major Countries
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    
44. The World Without Us
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
    
45. Year 501 
    The Conquest Continues
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.
46. Zimbabwe: One state, one faith, one lord
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The one-party system of Zimbabwe.

Experts on Africa in the Sources Directory

1. African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States
2. African Development Bank
3. African Union
4. Aga Khan Foundation Canada
5. CHF
6. CUSO-VSO
7. Canadian Feed The Children
8. Community of Sahelo-Saharan States
9. East African Community
10. Economic Community of Central African States
11. Economic Community of West African States
12. Embassy Row
13. Global Music Archive
14. Omar Ha-Redeye
15. ibiblio.org
16. Oxfam Canada
17. Pearson Peacekeeping Centre
18. Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
19. World Bank