Here
a list of sites were you can expect to find specific information about
society when you search their database on a word like
"law" or "history". You should try to
narrow your search, and preferably use narrow categories.
NOTE: "Society Organisations" might cover almost any type of
organisation. You are therefore advised to look for the organisation you are
interested in in the Organisations &
Institutions Index Page.
UNESCO
is the UN's Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. It has its headquarters in Paris, France and 72 field offices and units in different parts of the world.. Their
site contains lots of data about events, programmes, statistics, publications,
documents, partners, etc. The site can also be accessed in
French, Spanish,
Arab and other languages.
The International Confederation of Free Trade
Unions has 215 affiliated organisations in 145 countries and territories on all five continents, with a membership of 125 million of whom 43 million are women.
Very informative site, including world news, special sites on child labor,
equality, human rights, trade and labour standards and much more. Site
also available in French
and Spanish.
Survival International
is a worldwide organisation supporting tribal peoples, standing for their right
to defend their own future and helping them protect their lived. land and human
rights. The site features news, events and presentations. Entries in English,
French, Kiswahili,
Setswana, Portuguese,
Spanish and other languages.
Professional design.
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation
(UNPO) is an organisation created by nations and peoples around the world, who are not represented in the world's principal international organisations, such as the
UN. UNPO consists of over 50 members who represent over 100 million persons.
News, reports, publications, links, etc.
The Young Muslim Association (YMA), is a Kenyan registered Muslim Charity. Started in post-independence Kenya in 1964, its aims were to look after the well-being of the Muslim Community in
Kenya, running a children's orphanage and more. Site give more info.
GaySouthAfrica is the
official Internet resource site for the South African gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgender community. Site also contains pics gallery.
Rainbow
Organization is the Gay, Bi and Lesbian Organization of the
University of Cape Town. Read about its history, activities, etc. But
no-updated.
4-H is an international organisation for
youth and children. Their goal is to enable youth to have fun, meet new people, learn new lifeskills, build self-confidence, learn responsibility, and set and achieve goals.
Africana.com
is a new portal web site with a lot of information and serious articles
about art, culture, lifestyle, news and much more.
African
Cultures is a portal web site dedicated only to African culture.
Good structure and easy to find information.
In the page of anthropology
of African Cultures you'll find, for example, anthropological news
stories from ABC, CNN or The Washington Post.
African
History in the Internet is a site from the Stanford University
Libraries, which contains a lot of serious articles, rapports,
conferences about African history.
Subcategories
Advice
Gay South Africa
Interactive is the South Africa's Official Gay and Lesbian on-line resource. Comprehensive on-line advice and information libraries, business directories, personals, image archives, internet relay chat, travel info
and more.
British Airways Travel
Clinics South Africa has a special site about the malaria.
Please, use this site to share your experience and help others to
avoid it.
Lonely Planet Africa Travel Guidebooks:
Discover Africa using this essential budget guide. It features: 240 detailed maps up-to-date advice on visas, border crossings and staying healthy.
The website So You're Planning A Trip To Africa
offers advice, based on personal experience, for those planning travel to West Africa.
Traveller's
Health Code hope you will remember your time in Africa for the colour, culture, amazing sights and people- not for becoming ill. No matter how seasoned a traveller you may be, Africa holds health risks
you must be aware of.
Ethnology
The Ethnologue Database
is a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228
countries. The Index organizes languages according to language
families and country.
Ethnology,
the website made by Al Mashriq offers information about people of languages
from all the world.
The Institute of Ethnology
at Jagiellonian University offers some information about general ethnology,
documentation and library.
The German Institute of
African Studies has a website with a lot information about the
continent, but only in German.
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology,
at Harvard University, founded in 1866 by George Peabody, is one of the oldest museums in the world devoted to anthropology.
Social
Science Information Gateway, from U.K. offers a complete
information about Ethnology, Ethnography and Anthropology from all
the world.
Society-Ethnology
is a book website with some tittles of ethnology in English, German
and Spanish.
The
Institute for Languages at Uppsala University, in Sweden, has a
complete page on ethnology in English, with links to other sites.
The
Ethnology Museum of Vienna offers in its website complete
information about its collection, exhibitions and others
services.
The National Museum of
Ethnology from Osaka, Japan, contains information about its
public activities and some links.
Fashion
& Beauty
Beauty
Net contains all information at you need about beauty: hair,
nails, skin....an more.
Fashion
Net offers not only rudimentary information. It has among practical
advice about get a job, for example!
Armani
Exchange is your open to Armani design. You'll see here his last
tendencies.
Elle
magazine offers you lots of articles and reports on beauty and
fashion.
Louis
Vuitton contains a comprehensive guide to his product line,
catalog, collection, fashion shown, etc.
Models.com
is a photographic gallery with the 50 top-models, from agencies like
Discover or New Talent.
Fashion
Beauty Internet Association is a international association to
people with special interest in the beauty, but the most members are
from USA.
Clinique
offers basic information about their famous beauty products.
Food & Drinks
African
Recipes - The Congo Cookbook - has a large
variety of African recipes, presented in a very delicate way for the
American/European reader. This is a perfect place to start if you want
to learn something about African cooking and read some interesting
features asides. Well organized, and you can look up recipes by region
or ingredient.
The Bergkelder,
situated in Stellenbosch, is one of the most important winery in
South Africa.
Boschendal
is the largest state in South Africa and famous for their wines.
Clos Malverne
tell us about Devon Valley, winery located in the heart of Stellenbosch,
in South Africa and is owned by Simon Pritchard who produced his first wine in 1988. The winery has a reputation for well structured, deeply colored and intensely varietal Cabernet Sauvignon and
Pinotage.
The website on Klein
Constantia wine tell us about its history. Klein Constantia estate, part of the farm that produced the Constantia wine prized by Europe's aristocracy in the 18th century, is considered one of South Africa's premier crus, its wines winning both local and international awards.
The
Food Museum has a list of several food staples from tropical
and temperate climates, with basic lexical information. Well organized,
but basic information. They are still working on it, it may seem.
Online Chef is a well organized
website with lots of recipes, among images and explains.
Sweet Dreams by Tracy
is a website with a lot of photos, recipes, ideas, links &
more for cake decorators.
Recipes &
more is a elegant collection of recipes for chocolate and other gourmet delicacies.
By Godiva Chocolatier.
Ice Cream Parlor
is a website with lots of traditional and exotic ice cream and sorbet recipes.
Japanese Sweets
offers in this pages recipes for home made sweet sekihan, a celebratory red rice, and rice cakes.
Very interesting. Did you know something, about kusamochi or zunndamochi,
for example?
Curlie's Bakery Recipes is a
website about only Australian bakery recipes and lot of delicious photos!
Vegetarian Journal Recipes offers
you a variety of vegetarian and vegan recipes. It's not so bored to be
vegetarian with them.
Vegetarian Kitchen is a complete guide
vegetarian kitchen, with a wide range of topics by Nava Atlas, full of kitchen wisdom and lots of easy, low-fat recipes.
History
Africa Net contains basic
information about some countries, among some historic information.
Africa
South of the Sahara offers a complete page about African History
with all possible categories.
Afrol
- African History is our sub site covering African history
topics. Contains articles on African history and practical
information.
COLOR: History of Mathematics in Africa:
For tens of thousands of years, Africa was in the center of mathematics history.
The Creation of the OAU
is a website that is based on the interviews and personal papers of the late Ketema Yifru, who was the Ethiopian Foreign Minister during the 1960s. The website provides detailed information
on the process behind the creation the OAU. It also is a reference resource on the OAU's founding fathers, giving a
short biography of all. The site's editor is Ketema Yifru's son, Makonnen Ketema.
Current History - A Journal of Contemporary World Affairs. Nowhere else will you find annual coverage of China, the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa.
H-Africa is a
member of H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine consortium of
scholarly list. H-Africa encourages the interdisciplinary discussion of Africa's history and culture and African studies in general.
Rhodesia
and South Africa: Military history, by Richard Allpor tell us
about the history and offers book list.
The UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History celebrates the world's diverse cultures and rich visual arts,
like Africa.
World
History Archives: The History of Africa offers lots of documents
on African cultural, social, economic history, etc.
Law
The Parliament of South Africa
proves information to enable the citizens of South Africa to participate in law-making and other parliamentary processes.
Wits Law School at University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South African Journal on Human Rights Call for submissions.
It offers information about laws, the constitutional court, the
supreme court of appeal, etc.
Lex Africa: a Network
of Law Firms in Africa. Doors in the business and commercial world have opened all over Africa. Understandably, businesspeople want a strong legal base before venturing forth.
WildNet Africa Gun Law Discussion Board.
Here you can to discuss about the gun law. What do you think? You can subscribe to this discussion board and have all new messages e-mailed directly to you.
Lifestyle
eHobbies provides one stop shopping for all your "hobbying" needs. Featuring hobbies such as trains, and radio control cars.
AllExperts - Photography
offers you to ask a group of experienced photographers your toughest questions.
In the website Botanica
you'll find information for this professional association for
gardening, with member and publication details.
The Internet
Center for Arts and Crafts Specialty Gift Shop offers an alphabetical index of craft suppliers and specialty stores on the Internet.
Animal rights
Coalition is an organization from UK with information on national and international campaigns, news and calendar of
events.
Beauty
Net contains all information at you need about beauty: hair,
nails, skin....an more.
Fashion
Net offers not only rudimentary information. It has among practical
advice about get a job, for example!
Armani
Exchange is your open to Armani design. You'll see here his last
tendencies.
Elle
magazine offers you lots of articles and reports on beauty and
fashion.
Louis
Vuitton contains a comprehensive guide to his product line,
catalog, collection, fashion shown, etc.
Models.com
is a photographic gallery with the 50 top-models, from agencies like
Discover or New Talent.
Fashion
Beauty Internet Association is a international association to
people with special interest in the beauty, but the most members are
from USA.
Clinique
offers basic information about their famous beauty products.
New products
African Business Pages
offers you the possibility to present your products in the
African market, among they inform you about some products.
IBM in South Africa has a wide range of IT products, services and Solutions to help your business.
Inter-Africa Dental want at
you rely on them for the best products at the best prices.
MBendi,
Products & Services of Africa is a service provided by companies
actives in Africa.
The website of Info Africa
has the overall objective of the group is to identify, produce and deliver e-commerce products and...
People
The online version of PEOPLE Magazine contains content from the newsstand version plus special features, profiles and photo galleries of all your favorite stars.
People Finder helps you
to find people like a lost love, family....
South Africa, all listings by Gayscape
is an Internet resources for and about the South Africa gay and lesbian community including sites written by people who live there and know what's happening first
hand.
The
Living Africa is a website with a large contents on African
people.
Religion
The Young Muslim Association (YMA), is a Kenyan registered Muslim
Charity Organisation. Started in post-independence Kenya in 1964, its aims were to look after the well-being of the Muslim Community in
Kenya, running a children's orphanage and more. Site give more info.
Munishi is a Kenyan site, with the aim
of preaching the Christian gospel through music and writing. Service in Swahili
and English.
The page of The
Religion in Africa and Cuba offers a analysis about differences
between the religion in West Africa and Cuba.
In the page of The Demise of Traditional Religion in African Culture,
by Mark Horsey, you'll find a report about the colonization of the western coastal areas of Africa during the 18th and 19th centuries.
East Africa
Web is a website with a lot information about all categories and
it has an special religion page.
Africa News Online
contains a Education & Religion page with news from all African
countries.
The
International Bicycle Fond offers a large bibliography about all
Africa, with some books about religion.
BBC
World Service contains a special page about all religions. A guide to the religions of the world.
Inter Press
Service, IPS, offers news from Africa, constantly updated. It is
possible find some about religion and the last news is here!
Qur'ani Tukufu has a
translation of The Holy Qur'an to Swahili language, including a very
useful index and search.
Unisa
Press, University of South Africa contains an Online
Academic Journal with some information about religion.
Sexuality
Planned Parenthood Association of
South Africa, PPASA: Transforming reproductive health care and sexuality education in under served communities is a dynamic national NGO committed to the principles enshrined in the South African
constitution. The site offers information about their publications, links, a
country profile of South Africa, etc.
Sexuality.org, Society for
Human Sexuality, offers positive and helpful information on all forms of
human sexuality.
Directory
of Sexuality Organizations Worldwide has a page with addresses of
some African centers.
Medieval Feminist Index: Scholarship on Women, Sexuality and Gender
offers indexes journal articles, book reviews, and essays about women, sexuality and gender in Europe, North Africa and the Middle
East.
Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT)
has information about decrease the incidence of HIV infection and STDs amongst sex workers through advocacy, education, counselling and support.
