Africa Almanac 
http://www.africaalmanac.com/
Tired of bad news? Visit Africa Almanac for reports on the African renaissance. As well as weekly updates of positive news, the site lists Africa's top 20 towns and cities, top 50 companies, top 20 hospitals, top 100 Africans of the year, and Africa records.
Africa Business Direct
Focuses on information, trade, investment and business services in Africa.
Africa Business Information Service
http://www.afbis.com/
An interesting site with articles on business and economics in Africa.
Africa Business Pages
http://www.africa-business.com/
An online business guide provides news, reports and analysis on the business scene in Africa. The site also provides a forum for the exchange of business contacts, market reports, classified ads, and a calendar of upcoming exhibitions.
Africa E-village
African Community Portal featuring news, features, forums, live weather, shopping and much more.
The African Conservation Foundation
A fine site providing a database of conservation organisations across the continent, online forums, a database of African species, links to scientific journals, and much more.
Africa Home
http://www.africahome.com/
A portal to all things African, with news updates, online polls, free e-mail, both Anglophone and francophone forums, a web directory, classified ads, and more.
Africa Institute of South Africa
A science council focusing on research on African current affairs, development and international relations
Africa Online
http://www.africaonline.com
This multi-national ISP offers an excellent African portal site that manages to capture the essence of African cyberspace. Offers separate sections for Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. Each section has news headlines for that country, a web directory, weather forecasts, and chat rooms.
Africa Planet
www.africaplanet.com
A somewhat cluttered portal that nevertheless offers a useful country-by-country web directory.
Africa Policy Information Center
http://www.africapolicy.org
Provides information on US and international policies toward Africa. Includes policy documents going back to 1995.
African Political Resources
http://www.politicalresources.net/africa.htm
An excellent place to start researching African politics, with links to the different countries' constitutions, election results and political party web sites.
Africaserver
http://www.africaserver.nl
As well as an interesting collection of Africa-related web links, this Netherlands-based site has virtual exhibitions and a directory of Africans residing in Holland.
Africa South of the Sahara
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/
Stanford University hosts a searchable directory of African web sites, catalogued by country and topic.
Find a Job in Africa
An African jobs portal
Go2Africa
Online reservations for accommodation, tours and safaris. Good maps and travel information for southern African countries.
Index on Africa
http://www.afrika.no/index/
A comprehensive guide to African web resources, catalogued by country and subject.
Mbendi
http://www.mbendi.co.za/
A tremendous business-orientated site with country profiles, a company database, and a guide to the continent's stock exchanges and industry sectors. No shortage of solid content here and a sophisticated search facility makes it all easy to access.
MoneyBiz
Moneybiz is an African Business News and Financial Information portal website, covering global economic trends but with emphasis on business in africa and financial issues across the continent.
New Africa
A seriously large portal with sections on just about everything you can think of, from national parks to gender issues. Includes country profiles, maps, and an amazingly extensive directory of both organisations and web links.
Organisation of African Unity
Not updated as often as it could be, the OAU's official site claims to be 'still under construction' but it does offer some regional reports and an outline of the organisation's structure.
Out of Africa
A mzungu's (westerner's) look at life in East Africa through stories and pictures. Includes sections on Aids, travel, women, and religion. Interesting!
Steve's Website
After travelling to Africa, American Steve Lonker has created a great site covering rock art, traditional and contemporary
African art, growing southern Africa plants, plants and birds of southern
Africa, travel in southern Africa, history, conservation, and environmental
issues in the region.
University of Pennsylvania's African Studies Center
A treasure-trove of links and maps.
Africa Hangout
A discussion forums aimed at the extended and far-fling African community.
