There are a vast array of academic institutions indulging in African Studies of one sort or another around the world. However the production of accessible information on the Internet differs widely from one to the other (largely depending on the importance attached to the Internet in the institution concerned). What follows is a selection of the best sites around in terms of accessibility of academic work at the institutions concerned and the range of links provided to other sites that relate to African issues. There is no particular order therefore no hierarchy should be assumed.

Institutions specialising in African Studies

• University of Birmingham, UK Centre of West African Studies (CWAS)
• University of Boston, USA African Studies Centre
• University of Cambridge, UK African Studies Centre
• University of Cape Town, South Africa Centre of African Studies (CAS)
• Columbia University, New York, USA
• University of Copenhagen, Denmark Centre of African Studies
• Duke University, Durham, NC, USA African & African-American Studies
• University of Edinburgh, UK Centre of African Studies
• University of Florida Center for African Studies
• University of Ghana (Legon) Institute of African Studies
• Harvard African Studies at Harvard
• H-Net Africa
• IFAN (Institute fondamentale d'Afrique Noire) à l'Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Sénégal
• Indiana University African Studies Program
• University of Kansas African & African-American Studies
• Kyoto University, Japan Center for African Area Studies
• Leiden Afrika-Studiecentrum
• University of London, UK School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
• Michigan State University African Studies Centre
• Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
• University of Oxford African Studies Centre
• Pennsylvania University, USA
• Stanford University, USA
• University of Texas - Austin Center for African & African American Studies
• University of Wisconsin-Madison African Studies Program