African Cultural Policy References

African Union (AU)

• African Cultural Fund, created by the OAU Summit of Freetown, 1980
• African Cultural Institute, 1971-1993
• Charter for the Cultural Renaissance of Africa, First Ordinary Session of AU Conference of Ministers of Culture, Nairobi, Kenia, December 2005 (PDF, 64 kB)
• Cultural Atlas of Africa
• Cultural Charter for Africa / Charte Culturelle de l'Afrique, adopted by the OAU Summit of Port Louis, 1976
• Cultural Industries for Development in Africa - Dakar Plan of Action, adopted by the OAU Summit of the Heads of State and Government, Dakar, Senegal, June 1992
• Culture-in-Education and Education-in-Culture, Fifth Conference of African Ministers of Culture, Nairobi, Kenia, December 2005 (PDF, 59 kB)
• Declaration on the Cultural Aspects in the Lagos Plan of Action (adopted by the OAU Summit of Addis Ababa, 1985)
• First Conference of Ministers of Culture of the OAU, Pot Louis, 1986
• Mid-Term Cultural Development Plan for Africa, 1991-1995
• Nairobi Plan of Action for Cultural Industries in Africa, First Ordinary Session of AU Conference of Ministers of Culture, Nairobi, Kenia, December 2005 (PDF, 148 kB)
• Pan African Cultural Manifesto, Algiers, 1969
• Project of the African Cultural Common Market, 1990
• Report on the Virtual Forum of African Culture Ministers on the impact of COVlD—19 Pandemic on the Arts, Culture and Heritage, May 2020
• Revised African Union Plan of Action on Cultural and Creative Industries (Draft)

UNESCO

• Adult Learning Documentation and Information Network (ALADIN)
• Africa Regional Programme 2004-2007 / Programme régional Afrique 2004-2007, UNESCO, World Heritage Committee, 19 May 2003, 15 p., WHC.03/27.COM/INF.20C, Annex III.: The Johannesburg Declaration on World Heritage in Africa and Sustainable Development (PDF documents, 62 and 64 kB)
• African Itinerant College for Culture and Development
• Audience Africa Conference, 1995 (International Follow-up Committee)
• Chairs for the Teaching of Copyright and Neighbouring Rights - Africa
• Cities for Peace Database - Africa
• Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (PDF, 57 kB)
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  Convention sur la protection et la promotion de la diversité des expressions culturelles (PDF, 61 kB)
• Cultural Industries
• Cultural Industries for Development in Africa - Dakar Plan of Action, Final Report of the Meeting of Experts on Cultural Industries in Africa, organized by UNESCO and OAU, Nairobi, Kenya, 20-24 January 1992 (PDF, 2.706 kB)
• Cultural Pluralism
• Cultural Policies for Development
• Cultural Projects in Africa
• Culture, Trade and Globalisation - Questions and Answers
• Education for All - Sub-Saharan Africa
• Culture in the Neighborhood
• Field Offices in Africa
• General History of Africa
• Hamburg Declaration on Adult Learning
• Fifth International Conference on Adult Education, Final Report, Hamburg, 1997 (PDF, 544 kB)
• Intergovernmental Conference on Cultural Policies in Africa, Declaration, Accra, 1975
• International Decade of the World's Indigenous People
• International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa (IICBA)
• International Network of Observatories in Cultural Policies
• Iron Roads in Africa, Intercultural Dialogue
• National Commissions for UNESCO
• National Copyright Legislation in Africa, UNESCO Database
• Lifelong Education Bibliography, UNESCO Institute for Education
• NGOs - list of Non-Governmental Organizations maintaining official relations with UNESCO
• Priority Africa Web Site, UNESCO
• Priority Africa Department
• Priority Africa Special Account
• Programme de l'UNESCO en matière de développement culturel (1961-1989) doc CLT/DEC/CD/94/10
  Includes abstracts of main documents and projects as well as lists of some 150 meetings and 350 documents, studies and reports (many of them concerning Africa)
• Reference texts in Culture and Development, UNESCO Sector for Culture
• Regional Bureau for Education in Africa (BREDA)
• Slave Route, Intercultural Dialogue
• Statutory texts on International Cultural Policy Issues, Sector for Culture
  Includes action plans, agreements, charters, conventions, declarations, protocols and recommendations adopted under the auspices of UNESCO, solely or jointly with other International Organizations
• Stockholm Intergovernmental Conference on Cultural Policies for Development
• Task Force on Education for the Twenty-first Century
• UNESCO bibliography on cultural policy and cultural development (1990-2001)
  This bibliography presents a list of 500 books, reports and documents, published between 1989 and 1998, by UNESCO or with the support of UNESCO, in the fields of cultural policies, cultural development and culture and development
• WebWorld Gateway, Communication and Information in the Knowledge Society
• Window to Culture - Africa
• World Commission on Culture and Development
• World Culture Report 2000 - Cultural Diversity, Conflict and Pluralism
• World Culture Report 1998 - Culture, Creativity and Markets
• World Heritage Centre - Heritage List Africa

For more information, please consult the UNESCO database Ulis (or its French language version). This full-text database lists all of the organization's documents and publications in almost 20,000 records (700,000 pages).
Also, all UNESCO information sources are now available from one unique access point - http://www.unesco.org/unesdi - listing and describing 120 databases and 57 information services.

Culturelink

• Up-to-date news from Africa and relevant cultural policy research information published in each issue of the Culturelink review
• Culture and Development vs. Cultural Development, Culturelink review, Special Issue on South Africa, 2000
• Consultant Reports

Projects

• Africa 2009 - Conservation of Immovable Cultural Heritage in Sub-Saharan Africa, ICCROM
• Africa Digital Library - West African sources
• Africa Exchange - a program of 651 ARTS
• African Information Society Initiative
• Bisharat - African language, technology, and development initiative
• Emerging Africa - Development Centre Studies, OECD (editorial)
• Exploring Africa - K-12 and undergraduate educators' project
• Inforoutes du Patrimoine - Gestion du Patrimoine Culturel, Université Senghor
• International ICT Development Projects in Africa
• Women's Voices/Africa

Events

• Africa South of the Sahara - Current Events, African Studies Association, Stanford University
• Africom - International Conference on Communication Systems
• CHIPAWO - Children's Performing Arts Workshop, Zimbabwe
• Evénements Africultures
• Events Calendar 2001/2002 - National Arts Council of Zimbabwe
• FESPACO - Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou
• Fifth FESPAM (Festival Panafricain de Musique) - African Music Heritage in Americas and in the Caribbean,
  30 July - 06 August 2005, Brazzaville, Pointe-Noire, Kinshasa (PDF, 37 kB)
• Inroads Africa - International Conference on the Performing Arts of Africa
• International Festival of Theatre for Development - Atelier-Théâtre Burkinabé
• International Seminar on Cultural Tourism - Perspectives for Sustainable Development and Management of World Heritage Sites
• MASA - Market for African Performing Arts
• SIAO - Salon International d’Artisanat d’Ouagadougou
• ZIBF - Zimbabwe International Book Fair
• ZIFF - Zanzibar International Film Festival
• ZIFF - Zimbabwe International Film Festival

Publications

• African Journals Online (AJOL 2000) - International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP)
• African Philosophy - philosophy, art, sociology, cultural experiences
• Arts Management Newsletter
• Dance in Africa and the Diaspora: A Selected Bibliography (PDF, 21 kB)
• EFA Africa Bulletin Board - Regional Bureau for Education in Africa (BREDA)
• Ijele: Art eJournal of the African World - architecture, art history and criticism
• Jenda: A Journal of Culture and African Women's Studies - cultural concepts
• Revue Africultures
• Revue Noire - news, reviews, events
• SACISnews, Southern African Cultural Information Systems - Regional Coordinating Unit (RCU)
• Screen Africa News Bulletin - supplement to the monthly news magazine
• West Africa Review - interdisciplinary journal

Press Reviews

Cultural agenda in the African press - links to cultural pages of bilingual websites

• Afrol.com, Culture & Society News
• AllAfrica, Arts and Culture
• Africa Online, Art and Culture
• Panapress, Rubrique Culture

News

• African Arts News - allAfrica.com
• Africatime.com - Toute l'Afrique, l'actualité africaine
• Africinfo - l'agenda culturel en Afrique
• Afrol.com - African Online News agency
• allAfrica.com - AllAfrica Global Media news and information service

Listings

• Actualité Africaine
• Africa, Visual Arts - systematic directory of annotated links, Worlds of Art, Universes in Universe
• Africainfomarket - culture and development cooperation portal
• Africa Live Online
• Africa Online
• Africa Resource Centre - All Information Portal on Africa
• Africa South of the Sahara - selected Internet resources, African Studies Association, Stanford University
• African Internet Connectivity
• African Publishers
• African Publishing Companion: A Resource Guide
• African Studies Internet Resources
• Africultures - site et revue de référence des cultures africaines
• Afrique - Géographie général, Réseau international de la jeunesse (RIJ)
• Afrol.com Index on African Culture, Afrol.com Culture & Society Portal
• ArtMatters.Info - authoritative information on arts and culture in Kenya
• Artslink.co.za - South African Arts, Culture and Entertainment Hub (Art Zone)
• Cultural Policy Listserv - Center for Arts and Culture
• Development Gateway
• Directory of Development Organizations, Africa
• Documentation culturelle, Arabesk - Banque de données sur le patrimoine artistique tunisien
• Electronic African Bookworm - African and development studies, publishing and book trade
• Ethnologue: Languages of the World, African country index
• Francophonie représentations
• Guide to Cultural Administration in Ibero-American States
• House of World Cultures - Africa
• Infos en Ligne - Archives Culturelles
• Jeune Afrique / L'Intelligent - actualité, services pratiques
• Liens vers le développement rural, Inter-Réseaux Développement Rural
• NetArtes - arte e cultura Angolana
• NGOs - listing of selected African cultural and artistic NGOs having official relations with UNESCO
• Soul Beat Africa - space for communicators across Africa
• UNESCO Key Contact Window to Culture - Africa
• USAID Africa Regional Overview
• Woyaa - African Internet Portal