I came across two sides collecting political and other cartoons from Africa.
Aiming to be an encyclopedia and search by country is Political Cartooning
or a collection (especially Southern Africa) cartoons is Africartoons
Afrigator has collected quite a few blogs writing from countries all over the African Continent, concerning different subjects such as politics, technology, life and entertainment, religion and sports, …
It is also possible to search after country.
a good point to start from
The African Writers Abroad Center informs about books and events from writers of the African diaspora.
They have a small collection of links to literary journals as well
Madam&Eve is a very popular cartoon from Johannesburg/ South Africa written by Stephen Francis and Rico, published in newspapers like Mail&Guardian since 1992.
It is set in post-apartheid South Africa with the white Gwen Anderson (Madam) and Black Eve Sisulu (Eve) as main Characters, as well as well as 80year old Mother Anderson from England, Madam’s mother, and Thandi, Eve’s 8 year old Cousin from next door, supporting them. It comments on racism, class and gender issues, as well as everyday international and national politics.
Best Cartoon I’ ve read in a long time
(on the website of Mail&Guardian you can browse the cartoon through subjects or people)
“The Podcast about african history, culture and politics”
is made by the historians Peter Alegi and Peter Limb and supported by the human arts, letters and social science center (MATRIX) of Michigan State University
with a new podcast free to download every month:
The University of Frankfurt/Main, which has the biggest institute of African Studies in Germany, has collected websites and databases here:
(description in german, sites in english, french and german)
The University of California, Los Angeles has now a free accessible journal online, with articles concerning the african continent
there is a wide range of podcasts on german colonialism and critical whiteness, spoken in german which are collected by freiburg-postkolonial.de
they can be listened to and downloaded from different sources via here
The German Institut of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) have a wide selection of articles on different subjects, sorted by country ( mainly german, some english)
E-library of AfricAvenir
http://www.africavenir.com/elibrary/
a big collection of material on various subjects concerning african culture, history, language, economics, diaspora and many more, as articles or podcasts, in french, english and german language.
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