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ISSUE NO 61 USEFUL
WEBSITES AND DISCUSSION LISTS |
IVOIRIAN SITES
WORTH VISITING
The absolute "uber-list"
of Cote D’Ivoirian web sites has been compiled by Karen
Fung of Stanford University. Below we have made a selection but
the full list can be consulted on:
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/ssrg/africa/cote.html
News on Cote D’Ivoire:
*Agence France-Presse via IZF.net
In French. Current news.
http://www.izf.net/izf/Actualite/archives_afp/cotedivoire.htm
*Agence Ivoirienne de Presse
In French, official government press agency.
http://www.refer.fr/ivoir_ct/med/aip/accueil.htm
*AllAfrica.com - Cote d’Ivoire
Current news from a company which absorbed the former Africa
News web site.
http://allafrica.com/cotedivoire/
*Cyber Ivoire
Online only Abidjan magazine. Began publication June 1998. Has
past issues online. http://www.cyberivoire.ci/cadres73.htm
http://www.africaonline.co.ci/AfricaOnline/infos/national
Other information sources include:
Abidjan.Net
In French. Search
engine for Cote d’Ivoire. Has an online magazine, a web
directory, links to Ivoirien newspapers, discussion forums (including
a page for African proverbs), recipes, e-mail directory, links
to Radio France Internationale Africa-related programs, etc.
http://www.abidjan.net/
Africa Business Network
Part of the International
Finance Corporation. The Africa Business Network seeks to "increase
the quantity and quality of private investment in Africa."
The Network maintains several e-mail lists for African business
which are open to all. Has business, economic, and social information
for Cote d’Ivoire and Uganda. http://www.ifc.org/abn/index.htm
Aviso
In French. Internet
service provider based in Abidjan. Has a business directory,
offers web-hosting, e-commerce, events in Abidjan, etc. http://www.aviso.ci/
Global Road Warrior
Very useful information
for the business traveler or tourist to Cote d’Ivoire. Has
a section on using modems and appliances. Based on the reference
book of the same name published by World Trade Press, Novato,
California.
http://www.globalroadwarrior.com/
Cultural sites worth a visit
include:
African Crafts Online
Profiles of weavers,
beadmakers, painters, sculptors, carvers, metal casters, tie-dye
artists from Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe.
Site for RUDO Craft (Rural Unity for Development Organization)
- basket weavers, stone carvers and potters. Has "slide
show" articles on creating glass beads, weaving, Kente cloth;
lesson plans for schools. Shows artists influenced by Africa
and sells crafts, books on African arts. Send African postcards.
http://www.africancrafts.com/
Alpha Blondy Web Site
His life, albums, lyrics to the songs, photographs, graphics
of posters, links to related sites. Send a postcard, register
for the free fan club and download a virtual pin.
http://www.alphablondy.org/
Bedu Masquerade
Examples from a
May 1996-Jan. 1997 exhibit at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, of
objects collected by anthropologist, Karel Arnaut, during fieldwork
in the Bondoukou region of Cote d’Ivoire from 1992-1995.
"....presents five stories about Bondoukou and masquerading:
the sculpting of the Bedu masks by men, their painting by women,
and their performances in which oppositions between men and women
are first parodied and then reconciled.". Includes a piece
on "The politics of collecting and exhibiting African art".
http://www.netpoint.be/abc/bedu/index.htm
Djembé-l
A discussion list
and web site on the "musical culture of West Africa. Emphasis
is upon the countries of Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, and Côte
d’Ivoire." Site offers videos, books, CDs for sale,
has past messages, and a directory of teachers and master drummers.
http://www.drums.org/djembefaq/index.htm
A flavour of the country’s
social issues can gained through browsing:
IBISCIS
Provides an extensive
directory of NGOs in Cote d’Ivoire. (Select the Banques
des Donnees, then Organismes. In the Pays section, put in Cote
d’Ivoire).
Also provides citations to
articles (in French) from magazines - Select Acces public, In
the Pays section , put Cote d’Ivoire.
http://www.ibiscus.fr/
INCORE’s Guide to
Internet Sources on Conflict and Ethnicity in Cote D’Ivoire
Internet resource
list by INCORE, the Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity,
a joint initiative of the University of Ulster and the United
Nations University.
http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/cds/countries/cdi.html
Nouchi.com
In French. Humour
site on Cote d’Ivoire. Has cartoons, a mock presidential
campaign site where you can hear a "press conference"
with the candidate. Includes African proverbs in French contributed
by readers. Has it’s own dictionnary guide to l’argot
ivoirien. Based in El Cajon, CA. [KF]
http://www.nouchi.com/
NEW CULTURAL
AND POST-COLONIAL STUDIES JOURNAL
The new cultural and post-colonial
studies journal Imperium was spawned by a successful series of
post-colonial studies seminars at the UK’s University of
Luton and adopts a pluralistic and interdisciplinary approach
to the subject. The editorial board consists of noted academics
from several international institutions, including universities
in Durban, Canberra and Dublin as well as Luton. The joint editors
are Dr Balasubramanyam Chandramohan and Dr Ian Spring, both of
the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Luton.
The first issue contains articles
on topics as diverse as the Kashmiri experience in Britain, colonial
Ireland, Indian sculpture, the Scottish island of St Kilda and
South African Indians. Future issues will address pedagogy in
an interdisciplinary context and the vexed question: does England
exist? The England referred to in this issue is not the contemporary
multi-ethnic England of 2001 but the mythological (?) England
of church fetes, cricket greens, warm beer, imperialism, Agatha
Christie novels and stiff upper lips. The journal can be found
at
http://www.imperiumjournal.com.
Contact Dr Ian Spring on: imperium@media-arts.luton.ac.uk
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