Fetaured audio recordings & digital audio
- Africa Past & Present PodcastsA podcast about history, culture, and politics in Africa and the diaspora. The show highlights interesting and significant people, ideas, and discussions in African Studies from a wide range of disciplines and perspectives.
- Travels in West Africa by Mary H. KingsleyMary Henrietta Kingsley (13 October 1862 – 3 June 1900) was an British explorer and writer who greatly influenced European ideas about Africa and its people. Kingsley was an outspoken critic of European colonialism, a champion for indigenous customs, and a dedicated campaigner for a revised British policy which supported traders and merchants over the needs of settlers and missionaries. This is her story in her own words of her adventures and the people and culture of West Africa.
To find audio recordings of individual cultural group from Africa search
World Oral Literature Project Audio Collection of Cambridge University.
Multimedia Databases & catalogs
Browse or search to find specific relevant audio/visual material about cultural groups of interest from the following databases or catalogs of audio-visual materials collections.
- Ethnographic Video Online, Volume I-II: Foundational Films This link opens in a new window Contains classic and contemporary ethnographies, documentaries and shorts from every continent, providing teachers visual support to introduce and contextualize hundreds of cultural groups and practices around the world.
- Kanopy This link opens in a new window Kanopy is a provider of documentaries, training films, and theatrical releases available as streaming video. Clips from the videos can be embedded in presentations or shown in class. Films in the Boston University Libraries catalog are licensed to Boston University for educational and research use only, for BU students, faculty, and staff.
