African Ethnographies

If you want to practice for the map quizzes...

Developed by Prof. Nancy Jacobs and African History students at Brown University -- watch the processes of colonization and independence unfold in your web browser -- from class January 11

From Boston University

an extensive collection of recent maps of Africa and individual African countries -- most of these were produced by the CIA so there is some bias towards political maps and areas of strategic importance to US foreign policy

A collection of links to maps of Africa

400 years of European maps of Africa, from the American Museum of Natural History

UN ISDR's maps show population density for individual African countries -- the link takes you to the page for Kenya -- use the drop-down menu on the left to select other countries

From ethnologue.com -- these maps can be deceptive because they show the borders between languages as clearly marked lines -- in reality, many linguistic groups overlap -- but they give a picture of the continent's linguistic diversity

GSM World's maps showing cellular coverage for individual African countries