Review of Internet mailing lists for Africa

Compiled by David Bedell <bedell@cse.bridgeport.edu> 21 June 1996

[Publisher's note: Because this list was last updated on 21 June 1996, the information is obsolete. However, it contains information that should still be of some use.]

The following e-mail lists are useful resources for students, scholars, and others who want to keep in touch with people from Africa. By subscribing to an electronic list, you can receive news or discuss issues of importance to your country, learn about another culture, practice a language, or just chat with friends.

Most of the lists in this document are served by an automatic listserver. To subscribe, send mail to LISTSERV at the indicated node (e.g., LISTSERV@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU for the list AFRICA-L) with a message consisting of one line:

SUBSCRIBE <listname> <your name>
e.g.: subscribe africa-l David Bedell

Some of the lists require an address other than LISTSERV; these are indicated.

This document is part of a longer document about e-mail lists for language learning and regional studies. To get the current version of that document, send mail to LISTSERV@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU with the message GET FLTEACH FLLISTS or to LISTSERV@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU with the message GET LIST OFLISTS1. It is also accessible by web-browser at http://ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu/~listserv/FLTEACH/flteach.fllists.

Special acknowledgment is due to the work of:

Nina Brown <n_x@access.digex.net>
Peter Limb <plimb@library.uwa.edu.au>
Arthur R. McGee <amcgee@netcom.com>

This document has the following sections:

• Africa region
• North Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia)
• The Horn (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan)
• East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda)
• Southern Africa (Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe)
• Central Africa (Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Zaire)
• West Africa (Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone)