Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Nova York: Sindicatos se unem a protesto dos indignados de Wall Street

Quinze sindicatos de trabalhadores de Nova York se uniram nesta quarta-feira (5) ao movimento "Occupy Wall Street" ("Ocupem a Wall Street"), manifestação que começou em 17 de setembro e que protesta contra o que considera as injustiças do sistema financeiro americano e contra a "ganância corporativa".

Agora somam-se aos indignados de Wall Street, que ocupam o sul de Manhattan, sindicatos como o Transport Workers Union (TWU), que agrupa trabalhadores de empresas de ônibus, metrô e de companhias aéreas de todo país, e a United Federation of Teacher, que representa os professores de escolas públicas de Nova York.

"Aplaudimos a coragem dos jovens de Wall Street, que estão se manifestando de maneira dramática pelo que foi nossa posição durante bastante tempo. O sacrifício defendido pelo governo parece uma rua de mão única", diz o TWU em seu site.

O sindicato, que tem 38 mil membros ativos e 26 mil aposentados, se juntou aos outros 14 sindicatos e mais de vinte associações comunitárias no final da tarde desta quarta para marchar da praça Foley, no distrito financeiro de Nova York, até a praça Liberty, ocupada pelos indignados de Wall Street.

Um grupo de pessoas detidas no fim de semana passado no local entrou com um processo contra as autoridades de Nova York pelo que consideraram uma armadilha da polícia para reprimir o direito constitucional da livre expressão.

O processo foi apresentado nesta terça-feira (4) em nome dos cerca de 700 manifestantes presos no último sábado (1º) na ponte do Brooklyn. Eles afirmam que a polícia deixou de forma deliberada o grupo chegar até a ponte e depois os impediram de abandonar o local e efetuaram a detenção ilegal de centenas de pessoas.

Os denunciantes citaram no processo o prefeito de Nova York e o chefe de polícia da cidade. Eles pedem uma compensação financeira e que suas ficham criminais sejam limpas.

Além disso, em represália a prisões efetuadas no dia 1º, o grupo de hackers Anonymus ameaçou nesta quarta lançar um ataque contra a Bolsa de Nova York.

Os protestos, que começaram em Nova York, já se estenderam para outras grandes cidades dos EUA como Los Angeles, Boston, Filadélfia, Seattle e Chicago.

GL | EFE

Monday, September 26, 2011

Kixicrédito no Namibe: Iniciativa do Banco Nacional de Angola (BNA)

Com o objectivo de aumentar o acesso da população de baixos rendimentos ao crédito, a Kixicrédito, instituição financeira não bancária, licenciada pelo Banco Nacional de Angola (BNA), vai abrir no dia 27 do corrente uma agência na cidade do Namibe.

De acordo com uma nota da Kixicrédito, a abertura desta agência enquadra-se na estratégia operacional de expansão da empresa, em consonância com a política do BNA, de tornar os serviços financeiros mais abrangentes. As pessoas que exercem uma actividade económica sustentável, nos sectores produtivos ou do comércio, são o “alvo” desta instituição.

A Kixicrédito tem cerca de 60 por cento de clientes do sexo feminino e contribui para a redução das disparidades dos géneros no acesso ao capital, apoiando as mulheres a desenvolver negócios e melhorar as condições de vida dos seus agregados familiares, sublinha a nota.

O documento realça que sem segurança de rendimentos nem segurança social, as mulheres que operam no sector informal da economia precisam de um sistema financeiro inclusivo, que lhes dê oportunidade de participar no desenvolvimento da economia do país, mas também acesso à protecção na doença, na maternidade e velhice.

A Kixicrédito, lê-se no comunicado de imprensa, tem produtos adequados às necessidades dos pequenos empreendedores, como o crédito solidário e o crédito reforçado e individual, concedidos de acordo com a capacidade de reembolso de cada cliente, a fim de reduzir os riscos.

Com a inauguração do novo balcão, a Kixicrédito passa a ter 14 agências no Namibe, Luanda, Cabinda, Huambo, Benguela e Bié.

Via JA

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Blackberry Tips and Tricks – All about Blackberry’s life


The following tips and tricks have been compiled over the years (since I started using a model 950 in 1999) from many sources on the Internet, RIM tech support, user manuals, and from simply playing around with Blackberry handhelds. Some of these may or may not apply to your handheld. Just how useful you find them may depend on things like: the model of handheld you own, which carrier you use, the software version installed, how your handheld is configured, any IT policies in place, and of course your own personal preferences and needs. Although many of the following tips and tricks will still apply, owners of Blackberry handhelds that feature SureType keyboards (i.e. 7100 and 8100 series) should look for additional ‘tips and tricks’ that are specific to their handheld.
Terminology
On this site and other websites, you may see the words (with or without a space or hyphenation) 'thumbwheel', 'scrollwheel', 'trackwheel', or 'wheelbutton' used interchangeably. RIM has often called this special button (that can be clicked and rolled much like a wheel mouse) a "thumb-operated trackwheel" in their documentation.
You may see the words 'ribbon' and 'home screen' used interchangeably.
The Blackberry handheld is often simply referred to as the ‘handheld’. BB and HH are common abbreviation also.
ALT key – Has half moon on top of it (or is orange on older models). Left side of keyboard below the ‘A’ key.
CAP key – Bottom right key (AKA SHIFT key) next to the space key.
SYM key – Can be used to enter less-often used characters in email messages, browser URLs, etc.
In General
1) Hold the ALT key while you roll the trackwheel to scroll horizontally in any field where you can enter or view text.
2) Hold the ALT key while you roll the trackwheel to scroll through a field to view options. Pressing the space key may let you cycle through the options as well.
3) Hold the CAP key while you roll the trackwheel to select multiple items in a list.
4) Type the first letter of an item in an options list or menu to jump directly to that item.
5) Type the first letters of a name or the initials separated by a space to find a contact in the Address Book screen.
6) Press the 'C' key to compose a new message from the home screen or within Messages or Save Messages [Note: This option disappeared in newer firmware but can be added back via a third party app]. If 'Enable Quick Entry' is set to 'NO' (Calendar/Options), then the 'C' key can be used to create a new appointment/meeting request while in the Calendar. See the calendar section below.
7) Rearrange the ribbon: In the Home screen (ribbon), hold the ALT key and click the trackwheel to bring up a menu. You can then select Move Icon, Hide Icon, or Show All. If you hide an icon, to show it again click Show all and it will appear with an X over it, bring up the menu on it and uncheck hide icon.
8) The Blackberry display can be backlit to allow reading messages in low light conditions. To get the light to come on, hit the backlight button usually in the lower right of the keyboard. Newer models also have a backlit keyboard as well so you can see the keys as you type if needed. The light goes out automatically after a few seconds of inactivity. The latest models with current handheld software allow you to change the timeout value (up to 2 minutes) and the level of brightness (2 step).

Note for C++ Model users: To get the display backlit, you need to press the ALT (orange) key quickly three times.

9) Turning the radio off and back on when coverage is spotty and you've lost signal seems to help on some handhelds.
10) Set Owner info and password protect your blackberry: Go to the Options menu, then to the Owner item, and enter your name, and additional information (such as an alternate phone number for you). Under Options menu, Security item, make sure you have ‘Password’ set to ‘Enabled’ and an adequate ‘Security Timeout’ value specified. [Note: these settings may be changed/enforced via an IT policy]When the security timeout kicks in (or you manually lock your device), the owner info you specified will be displayed on the handheld screen. If someone finds your lost handheld, this can give them enough information (and possibly an incentive if you include the word ‘REWARD’) to return the device to you.
11) If you have password protected your Blackberry (you should!) in the previous tip: [Note: these settings may be changed/enforced via an IT policy] After five incorrect attempts at typing in your password, the password starts echoing (figuring you really need all the help you can get). After ten attempts, it performs a lobotomy on itself and almost all data is cleared. The Memo database, however, may be retained and visible. Note for older C++ Model users: This will wipe data AND applications requiring a complete reload!  Siemens SK6R users: Your handheld will need to be sent in for service!
12) To support more than one signature: Wipe out your auto-signature in the Redirector of the Desktop Manager software, or on the Blackberry itself if using handheld software v4.0+ (Messages/Options/Email Settings/Use Auto Signature), and just use 'AutoText' to configure alternate signatures.  See the next tip on using AutoText.
13) Use AutoText to help you compose messages with fewer key strokes:  From the home screen, go to Options, then AutoText. A lot of AutoText entries have already been created for you. You can modify or delete existing entries, and even add your own. Entire boiler-plate responses can be entered here! Custom signatures, favorite quote/taglines, etc. can be stored, and then recalled in a message just by typing a few characters (that you specify) and pressing the space key. If you every want to use those exact characters in a message (i.e. not have the text you type replaced with an AutoText entry), you can simply hold down the CAP key as you press the space key. If you forget to do this (or maybe you just didn’t know there was an AutoText entry defined with those characters), you can hit backspace and this will ‘undo’ the AutoText expansion/replacement. Some of the stock AutoText entries rely on special macros (which you can also use in your own entries). Some of these macros are not available on all handhelds.  See the ‘Composing a Message’ tips on down in the list for examples of stock AutoText entries that use these special macros.
14) On blackberry models that include a phone, you can turn off the display of phone call logs in the Message list area. In the Home screen (ribbon), using the trackwheel and click the phone, click the trackwheel again and select options, Then Call Logging. Note that even with Call Logging turned off, you can still use the ALT-p and ALT-v shortcuts mentioned below to see the phone log and voicemail messages when needed.
15) ALT-CAP-Backspace will reboot your Blackberry handheld.
Messages
While in the Messages list there are many shortcuts and often over-looked features that can aid you in reading, composing, and cleaning up your email (some of these work in tasks, memos, and appointments also).
Searching/Filtering/Marking:
ALT-i: show only incoming mail
ALT-o: show only outgoing mail (messages you have sent - i.e. checkmark icon)
ALT-p: show phone log messages (on handhelds that are also a phone)
ALT-s: show SMS messages (on handhelds that support SMS)
ALT-v: show Voicemail messages (on handhelds that are also a phone)
ALT-d: (iDEN only) show a direct connect log in the message list
ALT-m: show MMS messages (on handhelds that support MMS)

Note: The ALT shortcuts above are just saved searches. Some of them may not be applicable to your device. You can create your own, or edit existing ones. Please see the Saved Searchestip below.

ALT-u: Press this key combination to toggle a single message as Read or Unread. Note that there is currently no way to filter the message list to show only unread messages. You can press the ‘u’ key to jump to the next unread message (see Navigating below).
h: toggle Hide Filed Messages setting on/off
i: file currently highlighted message(s)
s: go to the Search screen
v: show Saved Messages
Navigating:
Escape: close message listing and return to home screen (ribbon)
Backspace\DEL:  Delete the currently selected message(s)
Spacebar: page down
CAP + Spacebar: page up
t: go to top of the message listing
b: go to bottom of the message listing
c: Compose a new message
u: go to the next unread message
e: go to the next delivery error message
n: jump to next day of messages
p: jump to previous day of messages
r: reply to the currently selected message
l: reply-all to the currently selected message
f: forward the currently selected message
j: go to the previous message in the thread (of the currently selected message)
k: go to the next message in the thread (of the currently selected message)
Saved Searches:
Many people love to use the search hotkeys listed above (i.e. ALT-i), but few realize that these are just saved searches. These existing saved searches can be edited, and new one can be created, by following these steps:
1) If not already in Messages, click Messages from the home screen.
2) Click the trackwheel and then select 'Search' from the menu.
3) If you are creating a new saved search from scratch, skip this step and move on to step #4. To edit an existing search, click the trackwheel and select 'Recall' from the menu. Select the saved search in the list, click the trackwheel and select 'Edit Search' from the list (note that here is where you can delete a saved search also). 
4) Fill in, or change all the desired search critera.
5) Click the trackwheel and select 'Save' from the menu. This is the final step if you are editing an existing saved search.
6) If you are creating a new search, you will need to give your search a title and optional specify a shortcut key. Once you have done this, click the trackwheel and again select 'Save' from the menu.
To get you started, I'll describe one of my first custom searches: I compose lots of messages every day on my Blackberry handheld. Often I have to stop short of sending a message, so I save it as a draft message that I can go back and finish later. Unfortunately many new messages may come in before I get a chance to go back and finish those draft messages. To make sure no draft message gets forgotten, I created a custom saved search to find them. To duplicate this, follow the steps listed above for creating a new saved search. At step #4, scroll down to the 'Show' field. Press the space key to cycle through the available values. Stop when you see 'Draft Only'.  This will be the only thing we change now (you can go back and refine it later if you like). Now continue on to step #5 to save the search. In step #6 I gave this saved search a title of Draft Messages and assigned the 'd' shortcut key to it  (so it can be invoked via ALT-d). This shortcut key assignment works fine for me as I use a VZW 8703e, but if you use a Blackberry handheld that supports direct connect calls (i.e. Nextel) , you will need to pick another letter. Once you click Save for the final time in step #6, the saved search will be executed. If at any time you want to interrupt this seach (or any search), press the escape key.
Specifying where messages are deleted:
With email reconciliation enabled, many people prefer to be prompted as to whether deleted messages are removed on the handheld only, or from both the handheld and their mailbox. To configure the handheld to prompt you as to which action to take when you delete a message:
1) If not already in Messages, click Messages from the home screen.
2) Click the trackwheel and then select 'Options' from the menu.
3) ** Scroll down and click on 'Email Reconciliation' with the trackwheel. [Note: You many need to skip this step if your Blackberry has older firmware]
4) Make sure ‘Wireless Reconcile’ is set to ‘On’.
5) Change the option ‘Delete On’ to be ‘Prompt’.
Deleting multiple messages at once:
1) Hold down the CAP key and use the trackwheel to scroll up or down to select messages. Click the trackwheel and select 'Delete Messages'.
2) Highlight a date (i.e. Tue, July 20, 2004) in the message list; hit the trackwheel and select 'delete prior'. All messages prior to that date will be deleted. Important Note: If you have your Blackberry configured to automatically delete messages from your mailbox on the server when you delete them from the Blackberry, using this trick will NOT cause the messages to be removed from your mailbox on the server. So this is a good way to clean out the messages on your blackberry without worrying about having them deleted on the mail server.
Combine these with a searching/filtering tip to make it even more useful. Example:  To delete the last 5 outgoing messages (sent messages with a checkmark), press 'ALT' then the letter 'o' (for outgoing) this will show all of your sent messages. Then per the above tip, use the CAP key to select the last five messages. Click the trackwheel and select 'Delete Messages'.
While in a Message
Navigating:
Enter or spacebar: scroll down a page/screen at a time
ALT-enter or CAP + Spacebar: scroll back a page/screen at a time
b: scroll to end of page
t: scroll to top of page
u: jump to closest unread message
n: jump to next message
p: jump to previous message
Escape: close message and return to message listing
Backspace\DEL: Delete the currently opened mesage
r: reply to this message
l: reply-all to this message
f: forward this message
s: search for a word in the message
i: file current message
q: toggle between friendly name and SMTP address for a selected address in the header (like 'Show Address' and 'Show Name')
Selecting Text (OS v2.1+)
There are a few ways to select text:
1) Press the CAP key and then scroll the trackwheel to select. If you release the CAP key and scroll the trackwheel you will select entire lines. Press the CAP key again at any time to start selecting by character again.
2) Hold down ALT key + CLICK the trackwheel (click it don't hold it down), release the trackwheel and then use it to scroll whole lines. You can press and hold the ALT key at anytime to start selecting by character again.
3) Click the trackwheel and pick 'SELECT' from the menu. Scroll the trackwheel to select entire line. Click scroll wheel again and select copy.
Cut/Copy: After selecting text, click the trackwheel and select 'Cut Selection' or 'Copy Selection'
Paste: Click the trackwheel, and then select 'Paste Selection'.
NUM/CAP Lock
Turn on NUM lock:  Press CAP + ALT
Turn off NUM lock: Press ALT or CAP
Turn on CAP lock:  Press ALT + CAP
Turn off CAP lock: Press CAP
Composing a Message
1) Press and hold a letter to capitalize it (with Key Rate enabled).
2) Press the SPACE key twice to insert a period and capitalize the next letter.
3) Press the SPACE key to insert the '@' and '.' characters in an Email field. The first time the space key is pressed while in an email field, an '@' character will be inserted, any subsequent uses of the space key will insert a period. Thus if the email address is: "first.last@domain.com" you will need to type the first period. To prevent this character substitution, hold down the CAP key as you press the space key, or press the backspace key after the fact to undo (this behavior is identical to that of using AutoText).
4) Press and hold a letter key and roll the trackwheel to scroll through international/accent characters, equation symbols and other marks.
5) You can insert certain information about your blackberry into email messages. For instance, typing "mynumber" (without the quotes) and pressing space will insert your Blackberry's phone number (If your blackberry is also a phone). Likewise typing "myPIN" (without the quotes) and pressing space will insert your Blackberry's PIN. For iDEN phones (Nextel/Telus), you can type "mydcid" (without the quotes) and press space to insert your DIRECT CONNECT number. These are simply AutoText entries that use macros. You can edit these or roll your own using the same macros. Example: I create Autotext entries for 'mycell' and 'myphone' to be the same as 'mynumber'.   
Calendar 
(with "Enable Quick Entry" set to 'No')
n: Go to the next day, week or months (depending on view)
p: Go to the previous day, week or month (depending on view)
t:  Go to "Today" in the Calendar screen.
g: Go to a specific date in the Calendar screen.
a: Switch to Agenda view.
d: Switch to Day view.
w: Switch to Week view.
Meeting Requests
This tip is more a reminder for how to create Meeting Requests for conference calls in Outlook so that when recipients open the Meeting Request on their Blackberry, they can make the call (complete with conference/pass code) without manually dialing any numbers. In the location field use an x or ext between the number and the pass code.  Tag the # key on the end if needed.
18665555555x12345#
   or
18665555555ext12345#
You can pad it out with spaces as much as you like and it still works:
+1 (866) 555-5555 x12345#
+1 (866) 555-5555    x    12345#
+1 (866) 555-5555 ext12345#
+1 (866) 555-5555    ext    12345#
Now when a phone number in one of the above formats is clicked on the Blackberry, the number will be dialed and a popup will be presented to send the pass code.
Battery
The largest draw on a battery is the transmitter.  A few things that drain the battery:
1) Frequent phone use.
2) Being in fringe or no coverage areas will eat up your battery as it attempts to transmit. If you're in an area that is out of range, turn your handheld's radio off manually or use Options / Auto On Off to conserve battery life.
3)  Third party applications that must communicate frequently to maintain state (like some IM clients).
Heavy use of the backlight will also drain your battery.

Note: Extended/high capacity batteries can be purchased for some of the blackberry handhelds.

For the older C++ models that use AA batteries: Generally speaking (you can get higher rated ones) rechargeable batteries only last about half as long as standard alkaline battery. Energizer e2 Photo Lithium batteries tend to last the longest. However, they are more expensive and when they finally start to go, have another on hand because they drain quickly at that point.
Geek Tips (All models)
1) Rather than looking at the bars, you can change the display of the 'signal strength' to read in real numbers. While at the home screen (ribbon), hold down the ALT key while you type NMLL. The bars should change to read numbers. For the 'signal strength', if you are in the 100 area (that means -100 dBm), you will be transmitting at maximum power, and since coverage is hit and miss at this weak a signal, you may end up transmitting many times before the packets make it through. This might help explain any poorer than normal battery life. I consider anything at -90 to -50 excellent. To get the bars back: While at the home screen (ribbon), hold down the ALT key while you type NMLL again.
2) Hold down the ALT key -AND- the CAP key at the same time, then press the letter 'h'. This brings up the "Help Me!" screen that lists version, app version, pin, imei, uptime, signal strength, battery level, file free, and file total.
3) Hold down the ALT while you type LGLG. This brings up the event log where you can clear events (frees some memory), view them or copy the contents to mail to someone. You can also change the level of logging here.
Old Geek Tips (older C++ models only)
1) ON any C++ model (i.e. 85x and 95x models), hold down the ALT (Orange) key and type "DBON" to display battery and signal strength as numbers. ALT+DBOFF returns to bars. Note: Although this trick does not work on the new Java-based models, both values are displayed in Options, Status on those models.
2) Hold down the orange ALT (orange) key -AND- the CAP key at the same time, then the letter 'b'. This will show you the 'Device Status' screen with extended battery info and other stuff. This tip should work from any screen.
3) Hold down the ALT (orange) key -AND- the CAP key at the same time, then the letter 'r'. This will show you the 'Radio Status' screen. Clicking on some of the info opens up news windows. Pressing the letter 'p' while on the 'Radio Status' screen sends a packet to the network which will send your Blackberry an acknowledgement in return. This is useful if you are in a weak signal area and want to stop your Blackberry from searching for other sites. You can do this and your Blackberry might stay there long enough to let you send that message that you might normally be in a too weak of an area to send. Also, pressing the letter "b" on this screen will get you the same 'Device Status' screen as tip #2 above. This tip should also work from any screen.
4) On a Blackberry that uses the Mobitex network (950 and 957 models) you may be able to switch towers. Go into the Radio Info screen as explained in tip #3. Type in REJ (which stands for Reject current tower). You won't see anything typed in, and sometimes this requires more than one try.
Carrier Tips/Codes
Verizon:
Call ##000000 - CDMA Service Program Edit Screen
Call *228 (option 2) - Update PRL OTA (Preferred Roaming List  - Over The Air).  The way to go.
Call *22899 - Activate phone and update PRL OTA. No additional prompts. VZW customer support use to recommend this, but now it seems to not be a good option for phones.
The Preferred Roaming List (PRL) is a list that a CDMA device (your Blackberry handheld in this case) uses when it attempts to locate and connect to cellular systems/towers. Your handheld can find and use a system not listed in the PRL, but it will try to use what is in the PRL first. Other connection issues aside, this can be a problem with data devices as when roaming you want to use a carrier that your provider has a data roaming (not just voice) agreement with [Note: similar issues exist with GSM/GPRS carriers and their roaming partners]. Because of issues like this it is often recommended that Verizon Wireless customers (and customers of other CDMA carriers) perform a PRL OTA update every couple of months; as the PRL is updated periodically to reflect new or updated information for other carriers which your provider has roaming agreements with, additional carrier frequencies being used in an area, and new cell towers (and new transmittion sites on exiting towers) added within your carriers own network.
Nextel:
After entering the 'Help Me!' screen (See Geek Tips). You can enter trace mode by typing: ZAML
Mailbox Clean Up
[Note: This section was written specifically for Blackberry handheld owners that use Outlook to access an Exchange server and have a BES account - others may still find some of the info useful]
If your mailbox has size limits (Email quotas), you may be prohibited from sending (and in some organizations even receiving) any new email until you reduce the amount of email already present in your mailbox. Not being able to send an important email because your mailbox is full can be frustrating to say the least. Cleaning up your mailbox is generally much easier on a PC (where you may have better searching, sorting and archival tools), but you can do a lot of it from the Blackberry.
Delete message that are no longer needed. These messages must not only be deleted on your handheld, but from your mailbox as well. To make sure you are deleting the messages on your mailbox, please review the ‘Specifying where messages are deleted’ aforementioned tip.  After deleting the messages, you can click the trackwheel and chose ‘Reconcile Now’ to speed up the process if needed, but please use this option sparingly as frequent use can degrade server performance. After deleting the messages, you may still need to remove them from your Deleted Items folder.
To Purge/Empty Deleted Items:
1) Go into Messages from the home screen.
2) Click the trackwheel and then select 'Options' from the menu.
3) ** Scroll down and click on 'Email Reconciliation' with the trackwheel. [Note: You many need to skip this step if your Blackberry has older firmware]
4) Click the trackwheel again, and select 'Purge Deleted Items' from menu.
Give this process a little time before trying to send another message. Remember that any item in your mailbox goes against your limit. If you still find that you are over your limit, you might have other items such as Tasks, Calendar, Contacts, etc. that you can delete.
Notes On Wireless Reconciliation
If messages deleted on the desktop are not deleted on the handheld, it can often be caused by one of following (assuming wireless email reconciliation is enabled on the BES and handheld):
1) The messages have been moved to a PST or manually "hard deleted" in Outlook. A "hard delete" is done by holding down the shift key as you delete a message. Messages deleted in this manner bypass the "Deleted Items" folder. Messages must go to the "Deleted Items" folder AND stay there long enough for reconciliation to occur. Which brings up #2...
2) Messages must stay in the "Deleted Items" folder long enough for wireless email reconciliation to occur. This can take some time. Outlook 2003+ in cached mode will add an additional slight delay to this as well. Wireless email reconciliation will not occur if messages are deleted and then the "Deleted Items" folder is immediately emptied (either by manually doing so or if "Empty the Deleted Items folder upon exiting" is checked in Outlook/Tools/Options/Other and the customer exits Outlook right after deleting messages).
BES batch processing delays that may affect how quickly reconciliation is performed: The wireless email reconciliation feature implemented between a handheld and a BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), processes requests in batches. As messages are handled (read, deleted, moved, etc.), these modifications are queued up and sent to the BES for batch processing. Batching delays the wireless synchronization of folders and message status while the information is being queued and the batches are being created. The batching process is designed to regulate the amount of wireless traffic the BES has to process so that it does not become inundated with requests that the worker threads need to process. Heavy wireless traffic from wireless email reconciliation, as well as other wireless features, can cause the performance of the BES to degrade and may result in noticeable delays in reconciliation.
You can find more general usage tips in the User's Guide.
Gerald W. Gaston
Footnotes:
** Older versions of the handheld software may not have the sub-menu option mentioned (i.e. 'Email Reconciliation'). Simply skip over this step if possible or consult the documentation for your handheld.

Copyright © 2004-2007 Gerald's Tools

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Contemporary African Photographs – Blogs, Websites, Newspapers, Magazines – All About

Contemporary African Photographs

Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent
"visual images and sounds of Africa contributed over the years to the African Studies Program of theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison..." "more than 3000 slides, 500 photographs, and 50 hours of sound from forty-five different countries." Locate photos by topic, country, keyword. http://africafocus.library.wisc.edu/
AfricaGuide.com - Photo Library
Photographs of People and Culture, Places and Scenery, and Wildlife. "donated by friends and family or taken by Vera Cheal." Site based in the U.K. http://www.africaguide.com/library.htm
Africa Media Online
Professional marketplace based in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Sells publication rights to images, audio files and text produced by African journalists. Has high resolution images. Directory of African photographers available for photographic assignments. Has a World Cup section, Twenty Ten. Royalty free CDs (urban Africa, business, people/relationships). Education, etc. http://www.africamediaonline.com/
Africa News
Online magazine. Includes photographs. Focus is on Business, Microfinance, Society, Culture, Travel, Nature, Music and Sport. Published by Africa Interactive Publishers: Bas Vlugt, Peter Vlam. Based in the Netherlands. http://www.africanews.com/
Africa - PBS / National Geographic / Thirteen/WNET NY Television Series, Sept. 9 - Oct. 28, 2001
Site for the TV series. Includes a Photoscope section of photo essays on AIDS, urban life (Cairo, Rwanda, gays, the internet, Congo, South Africa, Nigeria), conflict (Eritrea, Burundi, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Rwanda, Congo, Sudan), the environment, women. [KF] http://www.pbs.org/wnet/africa/photoscope/index.html
Africa Photo
In English and German. Huge database, now split into two web sites. Includes historical photographs, photos by ethnic group, occupation, country, types of art, building, etc. Site by Christoph & Friends + Das Fotoarchiv., Essen, Germany. [KF] http://www.new-york-photo.com/africa-photo.php
Africa Travel Photo Gallery
Photographers can submit their photos. Wildlife, people, landscapes, cities, monuments, etc. Site maintained by Andrew Muigai. http://photos.africapoint.net
African Ceremonies
Site for Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher 's photographic books of traditional Africa (West, East, Southern Africa). http://www.africanceremonies.com/
AfriPics Images
Sells stock photos. Need to request quotes. 27,000 photographs (licensed or royalty free) of People (mainly traditional Tuareg, Maasai, Zulu, Xhosa, Tonga, Afar; few modern urban scenes) and culture, Landscapes, scenics (Kigali, etc.) and Wildlife and nature. "print-ready, fully corrected 300 dpi A3 scans." Based in Nelspruit, South Africa. http://www.afripics.com/
Agenzia Fides
In English, Italian, French, etc. News, articles and documents from the Vatican regarding Catholic missions in Africa and other countries. Has for example (in Portuguese) a 2004 pastoral letter issued by the Catholic Bishops of Angola (summary in English). Photographs (from the 1930s to present) from African countries can be downloaded. http://www.fides.org/
Art and Life in Africa Online - University of Iowa
http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/
  • Snapshots of Daily Life in Mali and Burkina Faso
    Essay by Professor Christopher D. Roy, Department of Art and Art History, The University of Iowa. Photographs by L. Lee McIntyre, Ph.D., The University of Iowa. Includes architecture, Bobo-Dioulasso, homes, market scenes, family compounds.
Au-Senegal.com - Photographs Section
In French and English. Extensive site. Profile of Senegal, photographs and videos, Senegalese artistsand their work, glass paintings, etc. Site by Im�dia, based in Dakar; "une jeune soci�t� s�n�galaise sp�cialis�e dans la communication et le multim�dia." http://www.au-senegal.com
Berluteau, Eric - Photographs
Photographs of Senegal, Morocco, wildlife, etc. Photographer Berluteau was born in France and lives in Morocco. http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=372092
Burkina by Matt
A collection of photographs taken during Matt McClure's Peace Corps service in Burkina Faso from 2001-2003. He worked as a physics/chemistry teacher at a secondary school in a village named Kouka. People, culture, travel in West Africa, wildlife, Peace Corps volunteers. [KF] http://www.burkinabymatt.com
Camerapix Publishers International
Iindependent multi-media company. Television production, publishing and photography. "The Camerapix Archive contains more than 4 million photographs of Africa and Asia. Spanning 40 years, subjects include current affairs, historical events, people and personalities, tribal images, wildlife, landscapes, and rare aerial and underwater photography." Founded by the late world-renowned photographer, cameraman and publisher, Mohamed "Mo" Amin, includes his biography. Based in Nairobi, Kenya. http://www.camerapix.com/
Chu, Jenny - Images of Africa
Photographs from Angola, Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sierra Leone and Somalia taken in 2002 on relief activities of the International Medical Corps. The IMC site has additional photographs. http://home.earthlink.net/~jechu/africacover.html
Condominas Eric - Ethnographie Ordinaire, Gens du Mali
In French. Portraits of Malien individuals and families. Account by the photographer and his resume; he is based in Paris. http://www.photographie.com/talent/portfolio/condominas/portfolio/fr/index.html
Corbis
Has the Bettmann, Sygma, and Reuters archives of historical photographs with many African events. Photographs are expensive. Photographs can be purchased or licensed for use. Corbis is owned by Bill Gates (of Microsoft). http://www.corbis.com/
Crawfurd, Jacob
Jacob Crawfurd's 100 photographs of Cameroon, East Africa slide show and video clips, a panorama photograph of the valley in Bafang, Cameroon, plus 1937 historical photographs (no captions). Crawfurd, from Denmark, also heads JCJ Film, a one-man production company producing documentaries and short features. Learn about his video short story, Low Tide, with the Kizingo Arts Troupe, a group of 25 young Kenyan artists based in Mombasa, who perform Malaika. http://crawfurd.dk/africa
Crocquet, Pierre
Crocquet is a photographer (and former accountant), winner of the 2003 Mondi Paper Magazine Award for Photography. Photographs of South Africa (including one of Nelson Mandela) and other African countries. Prints may be purchased. http://www.pierrecrocquet.com/ and http://www.crocquetphotography.com/
A Day in the Life of Africa
A photojournalism project, directed by David Cohen and Lee Liberman, to produce a book and traveling exhibition. Feb. 28, 2002, a hundred professional photojournalists (Pulitzer Prize, World Photo prize winners, etc.) from 25 countries documented a day in the life of Africa. All photographers used five-megapixel Olympus E-20 and Olympus C4040 cameras. The book is to be published November 2002. All publishing profits from the project will fund AIDS education programs in Africa." http://www.ditlafrica.com/
See also the Washington Post site about the book which features the photographers and their photographs. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/world/africa/index.htm
Dear Ethiopia
In English and French. Site by Bertrand Duquénois, an "account of my trips in this extraordinary country." Many photographs, includes an annotated bibliography (in French). [KF] http://www.dear-ethiopia.com
Djibouti le pays des braves
In French. Has beautiful photographs, information for travelers, message forum, links to Djibouti information. Site by Montagut Serge. http://www.multimania.com/djiboutiweb
Dogon - Lobi - River Niger Albums
Over 400 photographs in six photo albums on contemporary urban Africa, the Dogon (Mali) , River Niger, and Lobi (Burkina Faso), and Egypt. One or two word captions only. Photographs by Huib Blom. http://www.dogon-lobi.ch/
Dschang-Online.com
In French. "un espace de rencontre et d'animation culturelle entre tous les fils, filles et amis duCameroun en général et du département de la Menoua en particulier." Has photographs (including contemporary artists), and many other features. http://www.dschang-online.com/
Ethiopia Land of Faith
Photographs of the site-owner photographer's 2002 trip to Ethiopia (Timket, Gondar, Axum, ancient churches and monasteries, Lalibela, Bahar Dar and Lake Tana), Addis Ababa. Photographs are captioned. Part of the site, Photography, a Worldview. [KF] http://www.peace-on-earth.org/Ethiopia
Fayemi, A. Olusegun
Contemporary black and white photographs (women, children, elders) from Nigeria, Senegal, Mali, Ghana, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Zimbabwe, Nigeri and other countries. Dr. Fayemi is Clinical Associate Professor of Pathology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY. Site for Albofa Press, publisher of Dr. Fayemi's books, in White Plains, New York. [KF] http://www.fayemi.com/
Flickr
Find photographs on many topics taken by people all over the world. Site owned by Yahoo. http://www.flickr.com/
Gettyone
People, African art, wildlife, paintings, historical photographs. Requires setting cookies on your computer. [KF] http://www.gettyone.com/
Google Image Search
A search on Abdoulaye Wade retrieved 20 images, on Olusegun Obasanjo over 100 images including cartoons and for ibeji (twin figures) c. 60 images. Pages take a while to load. Results are pretty good though it's a puzzle as to why some images are retrieved. http://images.google.com/
Hejhopp.com - Pictures and Travel Journals from Southern and East Africa
The author's travel journal and photographs of Uganda (54 images), Rwanda (48 images), Tanzania, Kenya, Malawi, Zambia (67 images), Zimbabwe, South Africa, Swaziland, Mozambique, Lesotho, Namibia, Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia (120 images), recorded between November 2, 2004 and April 29, 2005. Photographs have description, location, date. The Site owner is Peder af Geijerstam who lives in Stockholm, Sweden. [KF] http://www.hejhopp.com
Heller, Dan - Travel Photographer
Photos from West Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Sahara Desert, Togo) and Tanzania (the Maasai, Mt. Kilimanjaro). Tips, advice for photographers. http://www.danheller.com/
Iluminando Vidas - Fotografia Mocambicana 1950-2001, Ricardo Rangel & the Next Generation
A photo exhibition about Mozambique photography from 1950 to 2001 by Ricardo Rangel, his proteges, Kok Nam and others. Daily life in Mozambique from colonial times to the present. Over 100 black and white photographs. Photographers' biographies, self portraits. An exhibition catalog was published. Historical timeline. [KF] http://www.iluminandovidas.org/
Flickr - Images FOR Africa
"We want to collect 'Images of Africa' that are 'free to use' according to a Creative Commons License: Social documentary, structures, public transport, village life, poverty, nature, wildlife ... everything!" http://www.flickr.com/groups/images-for-africa/
Incwadi, A Journal of South African poetry and photography
Founded in 2009. "represents new work by most of South Africa’s prominent poets. Editor: Ingrid Andersen. "Incwadi means both letter (missive) and book in Nguni languages." http://incwadi.wordpress.com/
Institut de recherche pour le d�veloppement (Paris)
French government research institute, formerly ORSTOM, with offices in Africa. Has photo images in their INDIGO database. See also the SERIMEDIS database which includes the Indigo database plus picture libraries of some of the major French research institutes. Subscription is free of charge. [KF] http://www.ird.fr/
International Center of Photography. Museum - Snap Judgements: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography
Curated by Okwui Enwezor. Selected images, artists' biographies. http://new.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/snap-judgments-new-positions-contemporary-african-photography
IRIN Audiovisuals
Photographs of contemporary events - Rwanda 1994, Sierra Leone, Angola's War, Demining in Angola, Angola Food Report, etc. "Print-quality photos can be downloaded free of charge for non-commercial use ...." From the Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). [KF] http://www.irinnews.org/photo.aspx
The Maasai and Agents of Change
"The information and perspectives you'll find on this web site are, unlike most web sites on the Maasai,presented by a Maasai person rather than outsiders." On the people, land struggle, ceremonies, art, school & water projects, community, lion hunting, conservation, Western Paparazzi [who depict people as objects]. Sells a video by the site author, "Maasai and Agents of Change - a documentary" filmed in southeastern Kenya near Mt. Kilimanjaro in the Merrueshi region. Site by Kakuta ole Maimai Hamisi, presently a student in Washington state, U.S. [KF] http://www.maasai-infoline.org/

"Our photographs are unlike other photographer's work simply because the people photographed are our relatives and friends, who agree to be photographed on their own initiative. We represent them in a respectful manner which outside scholars sometimes fail to do."
Mande Studies Association
"...a multidisciplinary group with interests in the Mande region of West Africa." Their Newsletter is online, publishes a journal, Mande Studies. Membership directory. Mande language map. Has photographstaken by members, etc. http://www.mandestudies.org/
Markspark.com -African Odyssey
Narrative and photographs of the author's travels through Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana in the spring of 1999. Photographs and accounts of urban and rural life. Some photographs cover themes (statues, transport, women). Has a photo of Thomas Sankara's grave (former Burkina Faso president). By Mark Davies of London, U.K. [KF] http://www.markspark.com/africa99/
McCall, John C., and Christey Carwile-Routon - "Other Africas. Images of Nigerian Modernity"
Online exhibit of Nigerian poster calendars, television and video movie trailers (with video / audio clips), photographs of Enugu urban scenes, a Y2K billboard, clothing motifs. Accompanies an exhibit at the University Museum of Southern Illinois University, January - April 2002. Maintained by John C. McCall, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL and Christey Carwile-Routon, doctoral student in anthropology. http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/otherafricas/
Men, Pierrot - Pierrot Men, Tales of the Island
Photographs of Madagascar by photographer, Pierrot Men, born in Fianarantsoa. On the Tamarin gallery site. http://www.tamarin.com/p-men/pmendire1.html
MOdAMO.COM Photography "Photography for the discerning"
Nigerian photography studio. "......provides high quality professional photo services ranging from events to executive portraits to weddings." Based in Lagos, Nigeria. http://www.modamo.com
The Other Africa / L'Autre Afrique
In French and English. "a new vision of the African continent far from the usual afro-pessimism of the Western Media" The African Middle Class, African Lights (cityscapes at night) and African DJs (portraits of African radio DJs. Covers Cameroon, Cape Verde, Gabon, Mauritania, Sao Tome, Senegal. Maintained by Philippe Sibelly (from Marseille, now based in London). http://www.theotherafrica.eu or http://www.lautreafrique.eu
Panapress, Pana
Pan african news agency. See the Photo section to purchase photographs. Must register to find out prices. Photos such as of Wole Soyinka, World Cup South Africa 2010. http://www.panapress.com/
Panos Pictures
"a London-based independent photo agency representing photojournalists worldwide. Our photographers document issues and geographical areas which are under-reported, misrepresented or ignored." Sells high resolution photographs. "Panos’ job is to make the immensely complex issues facing developing countries accessible and understandable..." Connected with the Panos Institute. Based in London. [KF] http://www.panos.co.uk/
Peace Corps - Water in Africa
"contains over 500 photo resources, representing the best of more than 3000 images submitted by the Peace Corps Volunteers serving in Africa." Access photos by country. Each photo has descriptive captions. Has short narratives about water in African daily life, lessons plans (by grade or subject) for K-12 students, maps, technical drawings. Produced by Peace Corps Volunteers, World Wise Schools' (WWS) classroom teachers, and WWS staff members. http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/water/africa/
Photoshare
Health & development photographs. Search the database by subject, country, region, photographer. "intended for journalistic, documentary use. "images are available strictly for non-profit, educational use promoting international health and development,...." "request images for non-profit educational use,..." Has photography / image tips.
"The Information and Knowledge for Optimal Health Project (the INFO Project), based at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Communication Programs, receives support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)." http://www.photoshare.org/
Press, Betty - African Photographs
Photographs of West and East Africa. Betty Press was a photojournalist in Africa from 1987 to 1995. Now teaches photography at the University of Southern Mississippi. http://www.bettypress.com
Schadeberg, Jurgen
Site of the photographer who "documented black life, capturing on film the Rise of the Freedom Movement, Apartheid Repression and the vibrancy of township life and culture." "The Schadeberg Collection of Photographs brings to life key social, cultural and political events and personalities in South Africa's turbulent history." Recent photos, the San people of the Kalahari, jazz, Kliptown. http://www.jurgenschadeberg.com/
Senegalaisement
In French. Everything about life in Senegal, images of historic postcards (1870-1960), classifieds (rentals, etc.), videos (life & scenes in Senegal, Senegal's 2002 World Cup soccer team, news about the 2002 ferry disaster), Noms et prénoms du Sénégal, national parks (with maps), photographs. Based in France. [KF] http://www.senegalaisement.com/
Sierra Leone Web - Photographs
Many sites with Sierra Leone photographs. Site maintained by Peter C. Andersen. http://www.Sierra-Leone.org/photos.html
South African History On-line - Bonani Africa 2010
http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/saho%20stuff/saho-exhibitions/bonani/menu.htm
South African History On-line - Photography Online Books
http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/artsmediaculture/photo_books_exhibits/photography_books/menu_photography_books.htm
South African Journal of Photography (Pretoria, South Africa)
"an open source publication that is aimed at producing a direct and non-bias reflection of the fine art photographic market in South Africa." Professional photographers who are members display their work. Exhibitions calendar. http://saphotojournal.co.za
[Suzman] Caroline Suzman
Suzman is a Johannesburg freelance photographer. Photographs of South African life, Alexandra township, the Miss Gay South Africa contest, the Miss South Africa contest, preparations against farm attacks. Suzman has worked for the The Sunday Times and The Mail & Guardian. She is a member of World Picture News photo agency in New York. http://www.carolinesuzman.co.za/
UNESCO Photobank Online
In English and French. Photographs and slides from 1946 + when UNESCO was founded. Search options include by country, geographic location (city, etc.), topic, photographer, year, keyword. http://photobank.unesco.org/exec/index.htm
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - Photographs
Many Africa-related photographs especially of refugees. Photos are free. Also videos. http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49c3646c25d.html
University of Virginia. Cape Coast Archive
Photographs of Ghana. Includes downtown Cape Coast, Cape Coast Castle, Elmina Castle, Asafo Shrine-Elmina, Kakum National Park, Government House 1998, architectural drawings 1999, local street signs / billboards 1999, historic photos of jails, churches, government buildings, children, Panafest 1999, boat building, Ko-sa Beach Resort, two early maps." For the Panoramic Images - Click on the far right symbol, place the cursor on the photo and hold the mouse button down to see a panorama of each photo. "a collaborative effort by the University of Virginia Library, the United States branch of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), and Ghanaian institutions to document the unique cultural landscape of the Cape Coast,..." [KF] http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/CapeCoastArchive/
University of Washington Libraries - Cities and Buildings Database
Many photographs of buildings from Ethiopia (churches, traditional wall paintings, Lalibela, photos by Juli McGruder), also from Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana (slave castles, traditional buildings), Northern Ghana(Herbert Cole photographs), Kenya (traditional buildings, Fort Jesus), Mali (mosques, cliff dwellings, Timbuktu), Niger (markets, Univ. of Niamey, villages, resorts, Nigeria (Nigerian architect's residence, markets, local govt buildings, compounds, homes, schools, Lagos, shrines, National Museum, includes Simon Ottenberg's photographs, secret society building), Tanzania (Zanzibar, mosques, carved doors, Zanzibar fort, People's Palace, includes photos by Juli McGruder), Zimbabwe (Great Zimbabwe, photos by Juli McGruder), Madagascar, Senegal. Includes photographs from journalist Lisa Schnellinger. [KF] http://content.lib.washington.edu/buildingsweb/index.html
USAID Africa Photo Library
"photos taken by USAID staff and development partners reflects some of the many facets of USAID's work in Africa." Browse by country, sector (agriculture, crisis response, democracy, economic growth, education, environment, health, information technology), and keywords. "These photos may be used for non-commercial and educational purposes only." http://www.dec.org/partners/afr/photogallery/
White Fathers / Pères Blancs / Société des Missionnaires d'Afrique - Photographs
In French and English. "The Society of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) was born in Algeria, founded in 1868 by Mgr Charles Lavigerie, archbishop of Algiers." Includes photographs, etc. [KF] http://www.africamission-mafr.org/
Women Warriors: Cultural Guardians of the Ndebele
Photographs of Ndebele women, their mural paintings, beadwork, etc. On the site of Home Girl, Inc. created by Adrienne Hoard. Based in Jefferson City, Missouri. http://www.homegirlinc.com/women-warriors.html
World Bank Photo Library
Has many Africa-related photos. Use the Advanced Search. "Focusing on global development subjects include: agriculture, architecture, environment, health schools, nutrition programs, transportation, urban development and water issues." http://www.worldbank.org/photos

Historical Photographs

Sites with photograph or graphic collections are listed below. Other historical web sites may contain photographs.

Africa Photo
In English and German. Huge database, now split into two web sites. Includes historical photographs, photos by ethnic group, occupation, country, types of art, building, etc. Site by Christoph & Friends + Das Fotoarchiv., Essen, Germany. [KF] http://www.new-york-photo.com/africa-photo.php
Agenzia Fides
In English, Italian, French, etc. News, articles and documents from the Vatican regarding Catholic missions in Africa and other countries. Has for example (in Portuguese) a 2004 pastoral letter issued by the Catholic Bishops of Angola (summary in English). Photographs (from the 1930s to present) from African countries can be downloaded. http://www.fides.org/
American Museum of Natural History. Congo Expedition, May 1909-November 1915 [Historical Photographs]
"In 1909,...Herbert Lang and James Chapin set sail for the Belgian Congo....By the time they sailed home five and one-half years later, they had collected tons of precious zoological and anthropological specimens..." http://diglib1.amnh.org/

Contents:
an introductory, multimedia slide show.
diaries of James Chapin ("At age 19, in 1909, James Chapin left New York for northeastern Congo where he served as Herbert Lang's assistant for the next five years. Chapin was interested in many aspects of Africa's natural history. Birds, however, were his passion, a fact borne out by these diaries.")

biographies of James Paul Chapin and Herbert Lang, photographs (villages, primates), the watercolorsof James Chapin including Congo mural paintings, birds, fish, reptiles, mammels,

excerpts from "African Reflections: Art from Northeastern Zaire," by Enid Schildkrout and Curtis A. Keim (AMNH and University of Washington Press, 1990) including their photographs of Congo musical instruments

"160 publications including 120 American Museum of Natural History publications based on the material collected by the 1909-1915 Congo Expedition, 12 British Museum publications by Barry Bolton on Congo ants, 11 publications on African ants by the South African Museum and affiliated organizations, and 17 Congo-related World Conservation Union (IUCN) publications."

a central African map with layers. Select which features will appear on the map: lakes, cities, roads, railroads, forest, mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, etc., a map of Chapin and Lang's travels

historic maps reflecting the "development of European knowledge of African geography from 1562 through 1940." Reproduced with permission of the New York Public Library and the British Library.

audio (requires sound card, headset or speakers) and video clips of the Belgian Congo Records made by the "adventurer and filmmaker Armand Denis during his 1934-35 cross-Africa expedition. They were among the first recordings made of the sounds of the central Congo. The Babiara people, whose songs may be heard..... are one of the four main tribal groups who occupy the Ituri Forest." The video clip shows a traditional Mangbetu dance.

a bibliographic essay on sources by Paula Willey, specially prepared bibliographies on Congo Conservation (314 citations), Description & Travel (1218 citations), Maps & Atlases (220 citations).

Newspaper Headlines, 1880-1916 about the Congo from the New York Times and the New York Herald[KF]

Art Institute, Chicago. William B. Fagg (1914-1992) Archive
Finding aid for the collection, no online images. "Over a ten-year period, British art historian and ethnographer William B. Fagg made a series of trips to Benin, the Congo, and Nigeria to photograph the work of artists, ceremonies, and daily life in those regions. This collection of 2800 black and white photographs is one of only four sets of the Fagg archive in the United States and was printed from the original negatives held by the Royal Anthropological Society in London. In addition to the images, the collection also contains annotated transcriptions of Fagg's original field notes and photographs of Fagg himself." http://www.artic.edu/aic/libraries/rbarchives/rbarchcoll.html
Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
Compiled by Jerome Handler (Virginia Foundation for the Humanities) and Michael Tuite (Digital Medial Laboratory, University of Virginia). Over 1,000 images of pre-colonial Africa (ex. Queen Nzinga, King of Benin, King of the Kongo, European trading posts) and the slave trade in Africa and the Americas. Some images are in color; all have descriptive information and sources. [KF] http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/
Au Sénégal - Cartes postales anciennes
In French. Historical postcards (1900-1960) of former French West Africa (Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso) from the Archives Nationales du Senegal. Depicting people, historical events. Citations of the postcards are also in a Microsoft Access database (you need the Access program to use this). Part of a cdrom containing 1,515 postcards and the citations database. Maintained by Archivist Paléographe, Adama Aly PAM. Hosted on the Au-senegal.com site by Imédia, a Senegalese company. [KF] http://www.au-senegal.com/-Cartes-postales-anciennes-.html
Banknotes.com
Has a Currency Museum with photographs of banknotes from Africa. For South Africa has currency as old as 1896, from 1909 for Angola, British West Africa from 1918, from the Belgian Congo 1914, from French West Africa 1929, from Germa East Africa 1905, from the BCEAO "Banknotes of West African States" 1959, Rhodesia and Nyasaland 1956 and more. Site from Asheville, North Carolina. [KF] http://www.banknotes.com/  See also World Paper Money Collection by Ron Wise.
Basel Mission Archive. Photogaraph Collection
Over 25,000 images from the Basel Mission Archive with 6,100 images from Cameroon and 5,900 images from Ghana "dating from 1860 (in the case of Ghana) or 1885 (in the case of Cameroon) to ca. 1945." Includes the "Basel Mission's "sample book" of engravings used in its publications in the 19th century." "These were often "drawn" very exactly from photographs and increase the number of images of direct interest to students of Africa...". The web-site includes a substantial essay in interpretation of the use of photographs for themes of interest to historians, written by Emmanuel Akyeampong. Search the image database by Proper name, Institution name, Photographer / Photo Studio, Theme, Geography. http://www.bmpix.org
Beech, Joan - Follow the Red Dirt Road: The Story of our Life in West Africa from 1947 to 1958
Full text account of an English woman and her husband who was a Chief Assayer for a gold mine in the Gold Coast. Includes photographs. Mentions Kwame Nkrumah. http://dpicg.com/joan_beech/
British Library. Images Online
Antiquarian maps, historical personages, etc.https://imagesonline.bl.uk/
British Pathe Film Archive
A rich video news archive covering historical events, sport, social history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970. ITN now distributes British Pathe film. Obtain free low resolution video clips after the free registration. High resolution copies for PowerPoint Presentations and Web Publishing require a license fee.* The purpose of the site is mainly educational use. Commercial users who wish to order a videotape or DVD must order through a British Pathe librarian. The original film is 35mm. The free downloaded files may be e-mailed to others. By spring 2003, JPEG images will be available. For best search results, one needs to use a one word search such as Kenya or Nigeria and then look through the entire results. [KF] http://www.britishpathe.com/flashintro.cfm
* Higher quality hard copy on VHS (PAL format only) can be ordered. "There are three options for purchasing clips; single stories can be bought for £18 each, up to 7 stories costs £75, and 8 or more stories costs £10 each, all inclusive of VAT. Postage and Packing is an additional £2.25 for customers inside the United Kingdom, £10.00 for customers outside the United Kingdom."
Centre Edmond Fortier
In Dutch, English, French. Photographs by Edmond Fortier on historical postcards,1900 - 1910. Has an exhibition of postcards from Guinee (1905), Tombouctou (1906), Benin (1908), Saint-Louis (1900), Djenné (1905). "Includes photographs of l 'Almami" Samori Touré, the son of El Hajj Umar. As photographer and publisher of postcards, he visited Senegal and Guinea, Mali in 1906, Ivory- coast, Benin and Lagos in 1908..." Sells copies of the postcards. Site maintained by Jacques Krekelaar. [KF] http://home.planet.nl/~kreke003
Companhia de Moçambique
In Portuguese. "Retratos da África Oriental Portuguesa" Photographs from Álbuns Fotográficos e Descritivos da Colónia de Moçambique, by José dos Santos Rufino (1929). Links to other Mozambique blogs. On the Blogger web site. [KF] http://www.companhiademocambique.blogspot.com/
Congo Stamps
Stamps from the DRC (from the Independant State Congo 1886-1908 to the present), Burundi, Rwanda. Detailed descriptions, photographs, bibliography. Forgeries. Questions page. Maintained by Guy van Rijn. [KF] http://www.congostamps.com/
Corbis
Search for historical photographs which can be purchased or licensed for use. Try searching on colonial africa which retrieves images such as the capture of Kumasi by the British from the Bettmann Collection. Corbis is owned by Bill Gates (of Microsoft). http://www.corbis.com/
Crawfurd, Jacob
Jacob Crawfurd's 100 photographs of Cameroon, East Africa slide show and video clips, a panorama photograph of the valley in Bafang, Cameroon, plus 1937 historical photographs (no captions). Crawfurd, from Denmark, also heads JCJ Film, a one-man production company producing documentaries and short features. Learn about his video short story, Low Tide, with the Kizingo Arts Troupe, a group of 25 young Kenyan artists based in Mombasa, who perform Malaika. http://crawfurd.dk/africa
Creation of the OAU (Organization of African Unity) - Makonnen Ketema
Account by Makonnen Ketema whose father, the late Ketema Yifru, was former foreign minister of Ethiopia and closely involved in the OAU's creation. Includes a biography and photographs of K. Yifru. Also photographs of Kwame Nkrumah, Modibo Kieta of Mali, Seku Toure of Guinea, Emperor Haile Selassie, Jomo Kenyatta, William Tubman, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Diallo Telli, Tafewa Balewa, Salim Ahmed Salim and others. http://www.oau-creation.com
[Curtin] Philip Curtin Collection
Black and white photographs from the 1960s of the Senegambia, by History Professor Philip Curtin. Part of the African Online Digital Library. http://www.aodl.org/westafrica/curtin.php
Davies, Rick - Mogadishu Images from the Past
"A cartographic and photographic record of Mogadishu, Somalia, from the late 18th century to 1990. This page has been created and maintained by Rick Davies, a resident of the city in the 1980s." Brief history, historical photographics (many postcards). Dr. Davies, an Australian, is a social development consultant based at the Centre for Development Studies, University of Wales Swansea, U.K. http://mogadishuimages.wordpress.com/
Die Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft (DKG) Bildarchiv
In English and German. The Stadt- und Universit�tsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main has put on-line a large keyword searchable database of colonial era photographs, 1822-1936, from the archives of the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft [German Colonial Society], a major organization behind Germany's colonial expansion. Covers Namibia, Tanzania, Cameroon, Togo, etc.  One can click on the small photos to see a larger version. The database can be searched by Region, Subject Areas, Keyword, Person, Photographer, People. The collection, of thousands of photographs, is also being microfilmed for preservation. [B.Lawrance and KF]
http://www.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/afrika/bildsammlung_en.html
Eboué, Félix
Eboué, Governor of Chad, during World War II, aligned with Charles de Gaulle's Free French Forces in defiance of the Vichy regime. Eboué, originally from French Guiana, became Governor-General of French Equatorial Africa. He is buried in the Pantheon in Paris.

Centre des Archives d'Outre Mer. Exposition Félix Eboué, Pantheon, Paris. In French. October 14 - November 5, 2004, the Centre held a conference and exhibition in Paris celebrating the 60th anniversary of the death of Eboué. Photographs from Eboué's life (at the Ecole coloniale, map of French Equatorial Africa, letter from General de Gaulle to Eboué, Eboué at the Brazzaville Conference, etc. [KF] http://www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/caom/fr/expo/index_expo.html

Exposition FÉLIX EBOUÉ à la Médiathèque Caraïbe. In French. Biography and bibliography. http://perso.wanadoo.fr/lameca/neuf/programme/expo_eboue_03_2005.htm

France. Bibliotheque nationale. Gallica
"Gallica propose un accès à 70 000 ouvrages numérisés, à plus de 80 000 images et à plusieurs dizaines d'heures de ressources sonores." Images and full text from 19th century books and journals. Included are illustrations from over 16 African travel and ethnographic books from the Library of the Musee de l'Homme. For example, portraits of Senegalese women are in Esquisses s�n�galaises, Physionomie du pays, Peuplades, Commerce, Religions, Pass� et avenir, R�cits et l�gendes [Paris : P. Bertrand , 1853]. [KF] http://gallica.bnf.fr/
France. Centre des Archives d' Outre- Mer ( Aix-en-Provence ) - Photograph Database, Ulysse
In French. The database, Ulysse has hundreds of photographs, posters, and eventually maps. Search under region and country. "Commencée en 2002, cette base a pour objectif de rendre progressivement accessibles les photographies isolées ou en albums, les cartes postales, les affiches, les dessins et gravures, les cartes et plans." Covers the 17th to mid 20th centuries. http://anom.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/sdx/ulysse/index
Garvey - Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project
Project, directed by Robert A. Hill, at the James S. Coleman African Studies Center, UCLA. Has sample documents for the African series, 1913-1945 and a photo gallery. http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/mgpp/
Gettyone
The Hulton Getty collection has black and white historical photographs of Africa. Some captions have misspellings, i.e. "Members of the Askali [askari] native Kenyan constabulary chat as they prepare for a visit from Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip." Other collections show people, wildlife, paintings. Requires setting cookies on your computer. [KF] http://www.gettyone.com/
Google Image Search
Page or scroll half way down the page to Image Search. A search on Haile Sellassie retrieved over 20 images, for Patrice Lumumba over 30 images, for Julius Nyerere over 50 images and for ibeji (twin figures) c. 60 images. Pages take a while to load. Results are pretty good though it's a puzzle as to why some images are retrieved. http://images.google.com/
Graham (Billy) Center Archives, Wheaton College, IL
Its Images of Colonial Africa exhibit are photographs by missionary Laura Collins of Kenya, Cameroon, Congo (Kinshasa), and Uganda in the early 1900s.
http://www.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/archhp1.html
Illustrated London News Print Library
ILN Print Library, has a selection of prints which can be purchased for wall decoration. Examples - African Exploration and Discovery, Vintage Prints of Africa,Explorers. http://www.ilnprints.co.uk/
Illustrated London News - The Boer War 1899-1900 on CD
Cd-rom of images from the weekly newspaper. Cost is $21.95. http://www.archivecdbooksusa.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?AFFIL=TBA1&Screen=PROD&Product_Code=GB0613
Iluminando Vidas - Fotografia Mocambicana 1950-2001, Ricardo Rangel & the Next Generation
A photo exhibition about Mozambique photography from 1950 to 2001 by Ricardo Rangel, his proteges, Kok Nam and others. Daily life in Mozambique from colonial times to the present. Over 100 black and white photographs. Photographers' biographies, self portraits. An exhibition catalog was published. Historical timeline. [KF] http://www.iluminandovidas.org/
Images du passé en Afrique de l'Ouest
Images of old postcards depicting West Africa - Senegal (Dakar, Saint Louis, Ziguinchor), Dahomey, Haute Volta, Guinea (Conakry), Côte d'Ivoire, Soudan français, Niger, Cameroun, Freetown, Chad (Fort Lamy), Togo (Lomé, Atakpamé), Gold Coast (Accra, Kumasi). Maintained by Olivier Blot, a journalist and editor. http://idpao.com/
Imperial War Museum. Photographs
The Museum's Photograph Archive holds over six million images. The largest number are on World Wars I and II including the contribution of Commonwealth countries. "Britain's developing role as an international peacekeeper and the contribution of its armed forces to NATO and humanitarian reliefefforts are also shown." The few samples online exclude Africa. http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/photos.htm
Institut Fondemental d'Afrique Noire (IFAN) - Photographs
A selection of photographs from the IFAN collection - hairstyles, ceremonies, dress/adornment, Faidherbe, etc. IFAN, in Dakar, Senegal, was founded in 1939. [KF] http://www.aodl.org/westafrica/ifan.php
ITN Archive
"ITN Archive is one of the largest moving picture archives in the world with over 300,000 hours of material. With material dating back to 1896, the holdings comprise of all of ITN's output since 1955, the entire Reuters Television Library, the British Pathe News Archive and the Channel 4 Televisionarchive. ITN Archive includes historic newsreel footage, news agency material, rushes (b-roll) and broadcast news items from 1896 to the present day. Content includes: British Pathe 1896 - 1970, Gaumont Graphic 1910 - 1932, Empire News Bulletin 1926-1930, British Paramount News 1931-1957, Gaumont British 1929-1959, Universal News 1930-1949, Visnews 1957-1992, Reuters Television 1992 - present day, ITN 1955 - present day, Channel 4 Television 1982 - present day." http://www.itnarchive.com/
Journal of Sports History
Has full text articles, in Adobe pdf. Use the Search to find articles such as "Capturing 'The African' Body? Visual Images and 'Imaginative Sports' " by John Bale in Vol. 25, No. 2, of "The Journal of Sport History (18 pages) has been published by the North American Society for Sport History since 1974." [KF] http://www.aafla.com/5va/history_frmst.htm
Kaplan, Marion - Photographs
Kaplan writes - "Born in London, I lived as photojournalist and writer in Africa for twenty years."  Includes photos of arab dhows, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Uganda, political figures (Bokassa, Haile Selassie, Jomo Kenyatta, Idi Amin), wild animals, etc.. http://www.marionkaplan.com/
Lafayette Negative Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Photographs of Ras Mak�nnen and his retinue, part of "...a collection of approximately 3,500 negatives dating from the 1880's to the 1930's" from a Dublin, Ireland photography studio founded in 1880. Ras Makönnen was an Ethiopian General & Governor of Harar and father of Emperor Haile Sellasie I. Has an account of "The Visit to England in 1902 of Ras M�konnen of Ethiopia" for the Coronation of King Edward VII. Detailed descriptions of photos. http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1158_lafayette/eth_visit.php
Landau, Paul - "Photography and Colonial Vision"
Excerpt from a 1999 draft essay by Prof. Landau, History Dept., Yale University. To be pub. in "Images and Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa," edited by Paul S. Landau and Deborah Kaspin). (H-Africa's Africa Forum #6) http://www.h-net.org/~africa/africaforum/Landau.html
Larrabee, Constance Stuart - South Africa 1936-1949
Use the Search page. Search for Constance Stuart Larrabee to find over 2,000 items. Photograph exhibition at the Smithsonian Museum of African Art (Washington, D.C.) Larrabee "worked as a professional photographer in South Africa until 1950. Her aesthetic eye is apparent in the exquisite black-and-white images that document the lives of African peoples in both rural and urban settings." http://collections.si.edu/search/results.jsp
League of Nations Photo Archive
The League of Nations Archives’ photograph collections. "The originals of the photos are held with the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) Library, League of Nations Archives Sub-Unit and are its property." Includes photographs such as: Abyssina (Ethiopia). Delegation from Ethiopia on the admission to the League of Nations, September 28, 1923 From left to right, Robert Linant de Bellefonds, Dedjazinatch Nadeon, Ato Fassika.Geneva, 1923. and and photograph of Haile Selassie(See the Photos of Personalities, section 15).

Includes a digital copy of The Illustrated Album of the League of Nations, the League of Nations a Pictorial Survey. Has a chronology of the League of Nations from 1920 to 1946, bibliography, research guide, related sites. Produced by the League of Nations Archives, Geneva, Switzerland and the Center for the Study of Global Change, Bloomington, Indiana. [KF] http://www.indiana.edu/~league/
Lerner Publishing Group. Visual Geography Series
Has a few maps of African countries which can be saved to your computer and a small selection ofphotographs (some historical) which can be downloaded as well. See the Notes/Instructions for printing information. Lerner is a children's book publisher based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. http://www.vgsbooks.com/
Liberia Past and Present
Political and economic history of Liberia, including cultural affairs, from 1822 to date. Includes a chronology of Liberia's presidents with biographical information, maps, photographs (19th c. colonists), section on Liberian money with images, a bibliography. Maintained by Dr. Fred Van Der Kraaij whose dissertation was on the role of foreign investments in the development of Liberia 1900-1977, published as "The open door policy of Liberia : an economic history of modern Liberia ." (1983). [KF] http://www.liberiapastandpresent.org
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
"55,000 images related to Sub-Saharan Africa" Thumbnails only online for most images. Most higher resolution images viewable only at the Library of Congress. Many historical photographs such as EmperorHaile Sellassie with his pet dog, Bull; "Charles de Gaulle, chief of the Free France, is welcomed to Chad by Govenor-General Eboue of Free French Africa" LC owns the Look Magazine Photograph Collection among others. Includes posters such as "Journée de l'armée d'Afrique et des troupes coloniales" by Lucien Jonas, [KF] http://www.loc.gov/pictures/
Markspark.com -African Odyssey
Narrative and photographs of the author's travels through Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana in the spring of 1999. Some photographs cover themes (statues, transport, women). Has a photo of Thomas Sankara's grave (former Burkina Faso president). By Mark Davies of London, U.K. [KF] http://www.markspark.com/africa99/
Memória Portuguesa de África e do Orient
In Portuguese. Site takes a while to load. Historical postcards from Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, São Tomé e Príncipe. Click on the thumbnail to see a larger image. João M.Loureiro, owner of the postcards, has published them as books which are sold on the web site. http://www.postaisultramar.com.pt
MUNDUS Gateway to Missionary Collections in the U.K.
A rich resource for locating U.K. archives of missionary societies and missionaries in Africa. Guide to more than 400 collections of missionary materials in over 40 institutions in the United Kingdom. Locate archives by geographic area, personal name, organizations, subjects, keyword. Maintained by Archive staff at the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies. Includes a sample ofhistorical photographs, links to related sites. http://www.mundus.ac.uk
National Archives of England, Wales and the United Kingdom - Image Library
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/imagelibrary/
National Archives (United Kingdom) - Africa Through a Lens
Thousands of photographs dating from the 1860s to the 1980s are online. Incuded are "people, places, national and imperial events, conflict and natural disasters." People may add comments or identifying information to the photos.The images are from the Colonial Office Library. Approximately 10,000 images, a third of the entire collection, have been digitised" as of Feb. 2011. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/africa/
National Library of Australia - Picture Australia
Thousands of historical photographs (Boer War, South Africa, East Africa, Zanzibar, etc.). http://www.pictureaustralia.org/
National Library of Australia. Pictures Catalogue
Search for citations to images in the library and to online images. Searching on Africa produces over 60 online images, mainly South African (Cape Town, Table Mountain) historical images / drawings / cartoons, African birds and one African beetle. [KF] http://www.nla.gov.au/catalogue/pictures/
National Library of Canada. Images in the News: Canadian Illustrated News
Images of people, places and events from Canada and around the world from the magazine (published in Montreal) covering 1869-1883. Images for Africa are from the Ashanti War (and Ashanti Wars), Gold Coast and one of Fort Beaufort, South Africa. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/cin/index-e.html
New York Public Library - Digital Gallery
Covers maps in books (Muhammadan Africa, French Africa, early maps of West Africa, etc.), rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera (cigarette cards, British medals). See the Africana and Black History section and Customs and Costume. Two examples: The Fetish Folk of West Africa(1912) and A Geographical Present: Being Descriptions of the Several Countries of Africa (1831). [KF] http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm
New York Public Library - Picture Collection Online
"30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923." Photographs of Slave Ships, Costumes - Africa, Design - African, Slavery (return of slaves to Cape Verde, Zanzibar slave market, etc.), African-American History. [KF] http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/index.cfm
Nkrumah Infosite
Biography, bibliography of books on Nkrumah, photographs, audio clips. Designed by Zizwe Mtafuta-Ukweli for R4R productions. http://www.nkrumah.net/indexes/z1.html
Northern Rhodesians Worldwide
Has stories of life in Northern Rhodesia, historical photographs and excerpts from the "British South Africa Historical Catalogue & Souvenir of Rhodesia from the Empire Exhibition, Johannesburg, 1936-1937." http://www.niner.net/nr/index.shtml
Northwestern University. Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies - African Posters
Has online images of 77 posters, part of a larger collection. Posters are from anti-apartheid movements, South Africa under apartheid, the 1994 South African election and Lusophone / Southern Africa liberation movements. http://www.library.northwestern.edu/africana/collections/posters/index.html
Northwestern University. Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies. Winterton Collection
The Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zanzibar) and Ethiopia photographs comprises c. 7,600 photographs taken primarily in East Africa between about 1860 and 1960. http://www.library.northwestern.edu/africana/winterton/index.html
Open Video Project - Wheels Across Africa
Video dated 1936. "Armand Davis leads motor expedition in Africa, powered by Dodge cars." In three parts. Requires soundcard and speakers/headset for the audio." The video is from the Internet Archive. The Open Video Project is managed at the Interaction Design Laboratory, at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill." " "The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities." [KF] http://www.open-video.org/
Pankhurst, Richard - Ethiopian History
Many articles by Dr. Pankhurst originally published in the newspaper, Addis Tribune. Topics include Ethiopian crosses, art, manuscripts, Lalibala, the looted Aksum Obelisk, Ethiopian artists, early history of photography in Ethiopia, etc. http://www.abyssiniacybergateway.net/ethiopia/history/pankhurst.html
Panos Pictures
Use the Search box to locate historical photographs (early 1900s) of the Congo (DRC) from Anti-Slavery International taken by Alice Seeley Harris and her husband, John Harris. Has extensive descriptions. " Their photographs formed part of what was probably the first orchestrated multimedia campaign against large scale human rights abuses. Alice Seeley Harris was a missionary in the Belgian Congo, and during her time there witnessed the horrific abuses of the indigenous population exploited by a wicked regime under King Leopold II of Belgium." http://www.panos.co.uk/
PictureNET Africa (Houghton, South Africa)
Its Gallery has contemporary and historical photographs. Licenses photographs of the late South African photographer, Ken Oosterbroek (1962-1994), Drum magazine / Baileys African History Archive, and photographs from South Africa's Sowetan newspaper. http://picturenet.africa.com/home.html
Royal Commonwealth Society. Photograph Project
The Project will create an online searchable database . Search by country, topic, individuals, photographer. Photographs date from the late 19th century to the mid-1980s. Topics include leaders in Africa, administration in Africa, Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 1983, people, religion, belief & ceremonies in Africa, towns & cities, health, recreation, housing, domestic activities, transport, education. [KF] http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/rcs_photo_project/homepage.html
Royal Geographical Society
The Picture Library holds photographs and artwork from the 1830s onwards "covering a wide variety of subjects including climbing, the Colonial Empire, deserts, exploration, indigenous peoples, landscapes, remote destinations and travel." Does have a slide show with an 1873 photo of a crowd entering Christianbourg Castle in Ghana. http://www.rgs.org/

Special collections include:
Thomas Baines (1820-1875): "The Society holds over forty original oil paintings and numerous sketches and watercolours, (mainly of Africa and Australia) by Baines, resident artist of the Society and artist on Livingstone's 1858 expedition to the Zambezi." In the Picture Library, see the Gallery
Samuel White Baker (1821-1893): "Watercolour sketches by this big game hunter, illustrate Baker's expedition to locate the source of the Nile. Baker with his wife Florence, who together travelled through Africa and reached a large lake in 1864 which Baker named Lake N'yanza, now Lake Albert on the Uganda/Zaire border. It was only later established as a secondary source of the River Nile."
Sir Harry Johnston (1858-1927): "Penetrating portraits and social documentation by this colonial administrator, geographer and anthropologist of Africa (1890-1900)...."
Schadeberg, Jurgen
Site of the photographer who "documented black life, capturing on film the Rise of the Freedom Movement, Apartheid Repression and the vibrancy of township life and culture." "The Schadeberg Collection of Photographs brings to life key social, cultural and political events and personalities in South Africa's turbulent history." Recent photos, the San people of the Kalahari, jazz, Kliptown. http://www.jurgenschadeberg.com/
Schadeberg, Jürgen
Photographs from the 1950s for sale by long- time Drum (South Africa) magazine photographer Schadeberg. Has one contemporary photograph of Nelson Mandela. [KF] http://www.axisgallery.net/exhibitions/schadeberg/index.html
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The well-known branch of the New York Public Library devoted to the history, society, and culture of people of African descent has an online exhibition, the Schomburg Legacy, Documenting the Global Black Experience for the 21st Century.  It features art work, historical documents and letters, the Herskovits Collection, the John Henrik Clarke Collection, the Ralph J. Bunche Collection and other.  The Schomburg's exhibition, Images of African-Americans from the 19th Century, includes photographs of diplomats to Liberia and Bishop Sameul A. Crowther, first African Anglican bishop. [KF]http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html
Senegal Online - Historical Posters - l'Afrique Occidentale Française
Historial posters from French West Africa. Based in Melun, France. [KF] http://www.senegal-online.com/francais/galeries/affiches/
Senegalaisement
In French. Everything about life in Senegal, images of historic postcards (1870-1960), classifieds (rentals, etc.), videos (life & scenes in Senegal, Senegal's 2002 World Cup soccer team, news about the 2002 ferry disaster), Noms et prénoms du Sénégal, national parks (with maps), photographs. Based in France. [KF] http://www.senegalaisement.com/
Sierra Leone Web - Photographs
Many sites with Sierra Leone photographs. Includes historic photos and postcards from Gary Schulze and Glenn Elert's Salone Scrapbook with currency from the 1980s and earlier. Site maintained by Peter C. Andersen. http://www.Sierra-Leone.org/photos.html
Smithsonian Photography Initiative
Historical and contemporary photographs. Search, for example, their Postcard Collection. http://www.spi.si.edu/
Smithsonian Institution. National Museum of African Art. In and Out of Focus. Images from Central Africa, 1885-1960
A small selection from the exhibit of "...photographs from central Africa [DRC, Congo-Brazzaville, Rwanda, Tanzania, Angola] circulated as postcards, stereographs and illustrations between 1885, when the region came under the colonial domination of the Belgian crown, France and Portugal, and 1960, when central African countries gained their independence." http://www.nmafa.si.edu/exhibits/focus/index.html
Uganda - An Air Photo Archive of Settlement and Agriculture Rural Uganda 1963
Photographs taken 1963 for a study of indigenous land use and settlement (West Nile and the North East) by Walter W. Deshler, on a sabbatical leave from the Geography Department, University of Maryland. Also ground based views of houses, granaries and other items. "Air photo archive of settlement and agriculture in rural Uganda 1963. Most photos are from low flying aircraft. Landscapes are shown in some detail, including houses, granaries, crops in the field, occasionally livestock and corrals." http://uganda1963.org/ Mirror site at the University of Maryland Geography Department: http://www.geog.umd.edu/research/projects/Uganda/
UNESCO Photobank Online
In English and French. Photographs and slides from 1946 + when UNESCO was founded. Search options include by country, geographic location (city, etc.), topic, photographer, year, keyword. http://photobank.unesco.org/exec/index.htm
University of Cape Town Libraries - The San (Bushman) Photographs of Dorothea Bleek
A selection of photos from "an album containing 310 photographs [1910 to the 1920s] taken by Dorothea Bleek during her many expeditions to identify and record the San (Bushman) languages of Southern Africa." Includes Bleek's "Distribution map of Bushmen languages." http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/existing/DBleekXML/website/
University of Cape Town Libraries - UCT Through the Years
"Groote Schuur Campus 1900 - Present" Historical photographs (buildings) of the University of Cape Town campus. "....selected from a collection of photographs of the Groote Schuur campus, in the Manuscripts and Archives Department at the University of Cape Town Libraries. They date from the early1900s to the present ....." http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/existing/GrooteSchuurCampus/UpperCampusEAD.htm
University of Natal. Campbell Historic Photograph Collection
Need to register to look at images. "some 30,000 images, [by Dr Killie Campbell] mainly black and white and sepia toned prints, a rich visual documentation of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, mainly of Natal and Zululand." Includes Bambata Rebellion 1906, Dinuzulu, King of the Zulu, "earlyDurban, including street scenes, architecture, harbour and environs in late nineteenth century," Cape Town; Stellenbosch; Pietermaritzburg; King William's Town, Sheba Mine and town of Barberton,Swaziland, raiilways, hunting scenes, military groups, cultural dress and traditions of Northern Zululand and Tongaland. Part of the Killie Campbell Africana Library. [KF] http://campbell.ukzn.ac.za/
University of Southern California. Internet Mission Photography Archive
"historical images from Protestant and Catholic missionary collections in Britain, Norway, Germany, and the United States." Search by country or repository. Includes Ghana, Madagascar, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries. The photographs relating to Africa come from the archives of the Moravian Church, Leipzig Mission, the Norwegian Missionary Society, and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Site based at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. [KF] http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa/controller/index.htm
University of Virginia. Cape Coast Archive
Photographs of Ghana. Includes downtown Cape Coast, Cape Coast Castle, Elmina Castle, Asafo Shrine-Elmina, Kakum National Park, Government House 1998, architectural drawings 1999, local street signs / billboards 1999, historic photos of jails, churches, government buildings, children, Panafest 1999, boat building, Ko-sa Beach Resort, two early maps." For the Panoramic Images - Click on the far right symbol, place the cursor on the photo and hold the mouse button down to see a panorama of each photo. "a collaborative effort by the University of Virginia Library, the United States branch of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), and Ghanaian institutions to document the unique cultural landscape of the Cape Coast,..." [KF] http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/CapeCoastArchive/
University of Virginia. Jackson Davis Collection (1915-1930)
Over 400 photographs (with almost no descriptions) from various African countries (Uganda,  Zimbabwe, Liberia, Congo, etc.). Part of 4,000 photographs of African-American educational scenes in the southern United States. Photographs by Jackson Davis ca. 1915-1930 taken when he was with the General Education Board in New York, New York. http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/jdavis/
University of Washington Libraries - Cities and Buildings Database
Many photographs of buildings from Ethiopia (churches, traditional wall paintings, Lalibela, photos by Juli McGruder), also from Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana (slave castles, traditional buildings), Northern Ghana(Herbert Cole photographs), Kenya (traditional buildings, Fort Jesus), Mali (mosques, cliff dwellings, Timbuktu), Niger (markets, Univ. of Niamey, villages, resorts, Nigeria (Nigerian architect's residence, markets, local govt buildings, compounds, homes, schools, Lagos, shrines, National Museum, includes Simon Ottenberg's photographs, secret society building), Tanzania (Zanzibar, mosques, carved doors, Zanzibar fort, People's Palace, includes photos by Juli McGruder), Zimbabwe (Great Zimbabwe, photos by Juli McGruder), Madagascar, Senegal. Includes photographs from journalist Lisa Schnellinger. [KF] http://content.lib.washington.edu/buildingsweb/index.html
University of the Western Cape. Robben Island Mayibuye Archives - Photographs
No photos online. An archive and museum documenting South Africa's liberation struggle. "documents South African history from colonial occupation to the present with a specific focus on life under apartheid,..." Includes the photo archives of the former London based IDAF, International Defense and Aid Fund, Eli Weinberg Collection and the Leon Levson Collection.http://www.robben-island.org.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=35&Itemid=58
West African Online Digital Library - Historical Photographs
Project of Michigan State University, IFAN, and WARC. http://www.aodl.org/
Includes -
Sampling from L'Institut Fondemental d'Afrique Noire, IFAN (historical photographs),
Phil Curtin Collection (photographs, audio interview on his work on economic change in precolonialSenegambia in the era of the slave trade, Bundu),
Photographs from “Passport to Paradise’: Sufi Arts of Senegal and Beyond (the "urban visual culture of the Mourides, a Senegalese Sufi movement centered upon the life and teachings of a local saint named Sheikh Amadou Bamba"),
Mosques of Bondoukou (1980s photographs). [KF]
White Fathers / Pères Blancs / Société des Missionnaires d'Afrique - Photographs
In French and English. "The Society of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) was born in Algeria, founded in 1868 by Mgr Charles Lavigerie, archbishop of Algiers." Includes historical photographs from the Centenaire de l'Evangélisation au Rwanda, etc. [KF] http://www.africamission-mafr.org/
See also Register to the Photograph Collection of the White Fathers (Society of Missionaries of Africa)
By Robert Leopold, Daisy Njoku and Marion Rawson (National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, October 2000). This is the finding aid; it does not include actual photographs. http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/fa/whitefathers.htm
Wise's World Paper Money Collection
A great collection of scanned images of African and other paper money. Dates vary for each country, some from 1919 to the 1990s. See French West African currency from the 1930s and 40s or Biafra's currency. Many have portraits of African leaders. Ronald Wise, Jr. works at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis. http://aes.iupui.edu/rwise/notedir/africa.html
World Digital Library
In seven languages. Primary sources world wide. Antiquarian African maps, Arabic manuscripts from Timbuktu, early 20th century photographs, text of the speech by Nigerian independence leader Nnamdi Azikiwe (1904-96) on the day he became governor-general of Nigeria, South African San rock paintings, early travel journals. Supported by the U.S. Library of Congress, UNESCO, and National Libraries world wide. http://www.wdl.org/
Yale Divinity School. AdHoc - Image and Text Database on the History of Christianity
A Yale Divinity School faculty-library initiative, web-searchable database that contains electronic images and texts related to the history of Christianity. Contents include: Map showing locations of mission stations. (maps can be enlarged). Photographs/postcards of missionaries. Map of Anglican Church dioceses in Africa ca. 1897. Maps of Church Missionary Society missions in Africa. Map of the Partition of Africa as settled by international agreements, ca. 1891. Slave Trade Map of Equatorial Africa, ca. 1887.Based in New Haven, Connecticut. [KF] http://divdl.library.yale.edu/dl/index.aspx?qc=AdHoc
Yale University Library - Casimir Zagourski Postcard Collection
200 postcards (many online) from the photogaraphs of Zagourski, of Polish parentage, who moved to Leopoldville, Congo in 1924. From 1924 and 1941, he traveled around Belgian Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Chad, Kenya, Central African Republic, Cameroon, and Congo-Brazzaville as a photographer. http://www.library.yale.edu/african/zagourski.html
Yale University - David Apter Collection
"125 photographs taken by David E. Apter from 1951 to 1960 in the African countries of Ghana (formerly known as the Gold Coast), Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, and Benin (formerly known as Dahomey), during the buildup of nationalism and the start of independence. The photographs portray scenes of everyday life in these countries." Apter was Professor in the Departments of Political Science and Sociology. See alsoGuide to his papers and obituary. http://images.library.yale.edu/madid/showthumb.aspx?q1=1806&qc1=contains&qf1=subject1&qx=1004.2
Zaccaria, Massimo - "Photography and African Studies: a Bibliography"
Write to the address given for a copy. Published by University of Pavia, Department of Political and Social Studies, Pavia, Italy. 175 pages. A description of a print bibliography which covers books, articles, parts of edited volumes, catalogs of exhibitions and theses.... "Particular attention has been payed...topostcards. The first part lists citations on specific African countries. The second part covers public and private collections in libraries, museums and archives in Africa, the Near East, Europe and the United States. Includes online reviews of the bibliography. The volume is offered free of charge to libraries, if they send a written request. http://www-3.unipv.it/webdsps/personale/zaccaria/materiale/distribution%20bibliography/Distribution.htm
Zanzinet Forum
"a forum which brings together Zanzibaris of all backgrounds." Has a brief history of the Swahili language, by Hassan O. Ali; revised by Abdurahman Juma; 1988 population census information, historical photographs, photographs of violent events from the October 29, 2000 general elections links to related sites. Maintained by Idris A. Rai. Based in Ottawa, Canada. [KF] http://www.zanzinet.org/