African Map Circle – Digital Resources

Online Research & Teaching with Africa Maps:
Tips, Techniques, Examples & Resources
T. C. Weiskel
(PDF)

See particularly:

• The Africa Map Circle – a brief introduction.
• Introduction to the BU African Studies/Afriterra “Mapping Africa” Workshop
• Selected Online Links to the Africa Mapping Project
• Learning Under Lockdown: Some Tools & Tips for Online Learning About Africa & the World
  and
• The Africa Map Circle – “Explorations”

For a discussion of how these digital resources can be used for collaborative research and teaching of a wide range of topics in African studies see:

• Maps, Stones & Plants: Agents of Empire and the Ecology of the Atlantic Trade

In addition see:

• Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division | The New York Public Library

Library of Congress

The New York Public Library

Stanford Libraries:

University of Illinois

Northwestern University

Afriterra

See related Map Societies in the United States:

• Boston: http://bostonmapsociety.org/
• California: https://californiamapsociety.org/
• Chicago: https://www.chicagomapsociety.org/
• New York: http://newyorkmapsociety.org/
• Phillips: https://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/phillips.html
• Rocky Mountain: https://www.rmmaps.org/
• Washington: http://www.washmapsociety.org/