African Online Digital Library (AODL): MATRIX, working in cooperation with the African Studies Center at MSU, and in partnership with premiere research institutions in Africa, is pioneering the African Online Digital Library. The goal of this fully accessible online digital repository is to adopt the emerging best practices of the American digital library community and apply them in an African context. AODL benefits a wide variety of scholars, students, and institutions by producing multilingual, multimedia materials for both scholarly research and public viewing audiences. AODL serves scholars and students conducting research and teaching about West and South Africa as well as teachers and students of African languages in both the United States and Africa.

Digital Library for International Research: “Building on the established libraries and research collections of its nineteen constituent centers, the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) in 1999 launched the American Overseas Digital Library (AODL) as a cost-effective, efficient, centralized, Internet-based mechanism for the standardization and electronic delivery of important bibliographic and full-text primary and secondary source information from all CAORC member centers, covering both print collections and research collections in other media. The keystone of the Digital Library for International Research, and the first of its goals to be completed, is the on-line public access catalog containing the records of all the holdings in all participating libraries. The DLIR Online Catalog , is maintained at the University of Utah's Marriott Library and continues to grow rapidly as new materials are acquired and cataloged.”

African Politics Conference Group (APCG): The African Politics Conference Group promotes recognition within professional associations of the theoretical and methodological contributions to the discipline of political scientists whose research and professional interests center largely or in part upon sub-Saharan Africa. Membership in the APCG is open to all members and associate members of professional associations with which APCG is affiliated and to political scientists and others outside these associations with interests in African political processes who indicate an interest in doing being members.

African Studies Association: The African Studies Association was founded in 1957 as a non-profit organization open to all individuals and institutions interested in African affairs. Its mission is to bring together people with a scholarly and professional interest in Africa. The ASA also provides information and support services to the Africanist community.

CODESRIA: The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa is headquartered in Dakar Senegal . It was established in 1973 as an independent Pan-African research organisation with a primary focus on the social sciences, broadly defined. It is recognised not only as the pioneer African social research organisation but also as the apex non-governmental centre of social knowledge production on the continent. 

Ghana Studies Council: The Ghana Studies Council (GSC) is an organization of scholars based in Africa, the United States, Europe, and Asia, whose research interests focus on the peoples of the West African state of Ghana. It is an associate organization of the African Studies Association (ASA) of the USA. General membership meetings are held on the occasion of the annual gathering of the ASA. GSC also publishes a Newsletter, the latest issue of which can be accessed through the documents link below. It also sponsors the publication of a peer-reviewed academic journal, Ghana Studies, which appears annually.

H-West-Africa: H-West-Africa is dedicated to enhancing research, service, and teaching in the field on the region of West Africa: its history, culture, science and development. It seeks to bring together -- for purposes of discussion, exchange of information, the conduct and dissemination of research, and sharing on information and data about teaching and learning -- students, scholars, professionals, intellectuals, and others throughout the world who are interested in the past, present and future of West Africa and the enhancement of knowledge and understanding about the region. It will seek to develop resources for the enhancement of that knowledge and understanding everywhere, but particularly in West Africa and around West African institutions of higher education. H-West-Africa is sponsored by the African Studies Center, Michigan State University; the West African Research Association (Secretariat at the University of Wisconsin, Madison), and the West African Research Center (headquartered in Dakar). It is advised by a board of scholars.

Mande Studies Association (Mansa): MANSA was organized to increase and encourage communication between scholars interested in all topics of study involving the Mande peoples of West Africa, and the neighbors with whom they interact on a regular basis. A primary goal of MANSA has been to promote the participation of our West African colleagues.

National Consortium for Study in Africa: a collaborative effort of Title VI and others to pull together various sorts of information on study in Africa. The NCSA promotes study abroad programs in Africa and seeks to improve the quality of these programs. This site provides the most comprehensive listing available of programs for study abroad in Africa available to U.S. students.