Atlantic Connections: Africans and Portuguese on the Upper Guinea Coast and in Brazil, 1600-1800

Ethiopia: Traditions of Creativity

This online project is a place where one can learn about the rich and diverse aesthetic traditions of Ethiopia through the lives and works of eleven Ethiopian artists and artisans.

Maghrebi Women Writers

This project is a comparative study of the way postcolonial literary productions and writings by women in Maghrebi societies and Beur communities in France engage with social realities to promote change and civic engagement, inform public opinion and challenge institutional discourses. The project is organized around the analysis of the role of Maghrebi and Beur women’s writing in (re)defining the architecture of the public and private spheres.

Multi-Lingual Digital Library Project for West African Sources

This project serves as a multi-media digital library of West African language sources that may be used by scholars and students of African languages in both the US and Africa.

New Fossil Discoveries from Tanzania at the MSU Museum/Department of Geological Sciences

This collaborative project in southwestern Tanzania has uncovered important new fossil evidence that is contributing to knowledge of life on the Southern Hemisphere supercontinent of Gondwana.

South African National Cultural Heritage Training and Technology Program

South African National Cultural Heritage Training and Technology Program. This collaborative project aims at identifying and training people in a variety of different professional positions to use new media and best professional practices when working in South Africa on cultural heritage projects.

South African Traditional Arts Exhibition

This project aims to create a traveling exhibition on different aspects of South African cultural heritage to museums within South Africa and the U.S. and a series of smaller regional exhibitions at cultural resource centers throughout South Africa.

The e-LCTL (Less Commonly Taught Languages) Initiative

The e-LCTL Initiative is creating a national web-accessible database of language-learning materials, learning objects, and language modules in the LCTLs on-Line. All African languages that are offered in higher educational institutions in the U.S. are included in the database.