For a funky, easy-to-navigate site offering access to over 100 African news publications, try the Africa Server. Links are organised by country or by theme, and the site also has links to live radio.
An interesting news/opinion site run by Africans in the United States is USAfrica.
Afrika.com bills itself as 'the largest Internet site on Afrocentric business and information.' Need they say more?
ALGERIA
No trumpets, no fanfares, no drums - at Lonely Planet's Destination Algeria the outlook's grim.
Africa's on-line newspaper the Daily Mail and Guardian has an impressive news archive collection.
Algeria Watch International is a non-governmental, non-partisan, non-profit organization creating a greater awareness of the conflict in Algeria.
The World Algerian Action Coalition has an extensive site giving sound historical background and recent updates on the Algerian crisis.
The impressive ArabNet - Algeria gives up-to-date details about the current social and political state of play in Algeria.
ANGOLA
See what's happening at Lonely Planet's Destination Angola. It'll be safer than what's happening in the country.
Africa's on-line newspaper the Daily Mail and Guardian has an impressive news archive collection.
Read about, and listen to Waldemar Bastos, one of Angola's foremost musicians.
The Angola Page has a handy list of links to useful sites.
Cabinda tells you all about the northern enclave of Angola, which is not actually in Angola.
BENIN
Benin? Never heard of it! Well check out Lonely Planet's Destination Benin.
Look no further for info on getting out and about in Cotonou.
Frock up, put on the lippy, and swan off to Lonely Planet's Destination Burkina Faso, where film festivals and African culture collide.
Although Baba's West African Homepage is light on for hard facts, the Burkina Faso page offers a whole heap of links to get you to where you want to go.
The Cityguide site is chockabloc with information about Ougadougou and Burkina Faso. It gives you a run down on current local news and entertainment, as well as the state of play in the soocer league.
To find out who got to weep at the podium, à la Oscar-winner style, go to the FESPACO site. Film buffs can also get an eyeful of what's coming up in the West African indie film scene.
CAMEROON
Listen to that trumpet blare - we're blowing our own horn at Lonely Planet's Destination Cameroon.
The Essence of Cameroon claims to be the complete guide to the country, and it doesn't do a bad job - there's everything from history to hotel bookings, personal ads to badminton.
Welcome to Cameroon is an informal look at the country and its people, with sound grabs, pics and plenty of personal opinion.
Stepping Disks has loads of links, and will take you to sites about soccer, development projects, music and photography.
There's pictures from all over the country, and text in English and French, at Postcards from Cameroon.
For oodles of information and pics on the major islands of Comoros, go to the Comoros Island Homepage
The Library of Congress Country Studies is long and earnest, but has everything bar the kitchen sink.
For those serious beach connoisseurs, Condé Nast Traveler has pithy evaluations of the major sun-traps on Grande Comore and Mayotte.
Find out why the discovery of the coelecanth caused heart flutters and swooning. Be swept along on an icthyological tide of passion, heartache, tears, joy, and the inesteemable ability to put up with fishy smells, at Dinofish
'See, we were going to go on an excursion to the Mokele-Mbembe, but then they had this war, so we couldn't...'. Find out what the folks at Explorationswere going to do in the Congo, and what they still might do if they get the chance.
The Eritrea News Page
is a one-man newsfront operation. You want news of the war, you got news.
Bit hazy about where Eritrea is exactly? Want to know who its neighbours are? Then click on the mother of all maps.
A list of Eritrean phrases and words could come in handy in the middle of a war zone. Commit these two to memory: himaq (bad) and hanzab tsenah (wait a minute).
Leda Fish. Just because we like the name. Actually it's got groovy graphics as well and tunsa information on Eritrea and fish, the war and fish, and fish and fish.
Lonely Planet's Destination Gabon is your first stop on the TransgabonaisWWWay.
The government's official website isn't finished yet but there's some good social and cultural background info there.
Stanford has the most comprehensive page of links we've found. Most of the sites they mention are in French, but you'll find plenty to keep you surfing.
Likewise useful is the Gambia Resource Page, a 'rich despository of information,' if they may be so bold.
No one frowns at the Smiling Face of Africa, especially not with all these great pictures, recipes, chat rooms et al.
Momodou Camara is a Gambian native living in Copenhagen, but that hasn't dimmed his enthusiasm for his homeland and its people and culture.
Farther away still is Miwa, a Japanese woman who's written about her Passage to Gambia in May 1998.
See the show before you go, with the Gambia gallery of Norwegian photographer Svend Ole Kvilesjo.
GHANA
If you blow your own trumpet on the SubWWWay, it naturally leads to Lonely Planet's Destination Ghana.
In a web-world where Ghana barely rates a mention, Republic of Ghana is a treasure chest of info: plenty of cultural and travel stuff, as well as daily news and job vacancies.
Hello Ghana
doesn't have the same level of detail, but could be handy if you're making a business trip. Ghana Home Page is more of the same.
If you've got a thing for Ghana, Ghana Forum is your kind of chat room.
CHAINS: Coded Information began life as a Ghanian drumming performance. Now it's a very mysterious web site.
GUINEA
If you want to sip absinthe in the highlands, or find out about local music and places that jump, try Lonely Planet's Destination Guinea.
Like a caravan camel, Lonely Planet's Destination Libya may spit in your eye once or twice, but it'll get you there with bells on.
If you're interested in all things Muammar, don't miss this site, including hyperlinks to the complete text of his Green Book, plus Libyan news resources and dozens of other related topics.
Mohamed Hassan has a helpful webpage, full of tourist information and links to photo galleries and the like.
Better still, check out Miftah Shamali, which bills itself as 'the largest website on North Africa.' Be that as it may, it sure kicks ass over most of them.
In case you were doubting the rumours: yes, you really do have to have your passport translated before you'll get a visa.
All this desert talk making you thirsty? Click here for all you could ever hope to learn about the Great Man-Made River.
And if that tips the scales for you, learn more about protecting the finny ones at the African Technology Forum's poorly named Preserving the Future for Lake Malawi page.
MALI
Lonely Planets's Destination Mali is so far out it's in Timbuktu.
The Washington Embassy has a limited number of facts and figures on Mali but is worth checking out for the travel and tourism info.
Spooky stuff on AncientWeb. Did aliens really visit the Dogons in a spaceship called the Nommo? Say it backwards and what have you got? - that's right. Ommon!
Fabulous graphics and an up close and personal account of the Tuareg's nomadic lifestyle makes Stephen Buckley's Nomadic by Choice a good choice.
For all the bone collectors out there,
Mali Interactive brings you the juicy gossip and latest scuttlebutt from the archeological digs at Jenné-jeno.
MAURITANIA
Wondering where all the sand is? Wonder no more with Lonely Planet's Destianation Mauritania.
Where else would you make your first stop but Lonely Planet's Destianation Mauritius? It's all here.
Get the official tourist information - things to see, visa requirements, snapshots and accommodation - from Mauritius, an Invitation.
Gotta beef about Mauritius? Shoot your mouth off (if you can manage a bit of French) on the surprisingly busy Ile-Maurice.com forum.
Air Mauritius' Photographic Exhibition is a bunch of happy snaps taken by the airlines' passengers. There's some nice stuff in here.
Fill your face full of food at Recipes from Mauritius. Follow the links for more cultural stuff.
It's the first Mauritian newspaper overseas: Mauritius News.
MOROCCO
Everybody who goes to Rick's (and that's everybody) stops first at Lonely Planet's Destination Morocco.
Maroc Net is a great site with searchable databases and heaps of info, including a summary of the country's best museums and a funky introduction to the local music scene by Radio Casablanca.
ArabNet provides a solid overview of Moroccan culture, history and (er?) transport options.
The One and Only Morocco has plenty of juicy morsels, none more succulent than a recipe for bidaoiu couscous.
You'll find a compilation of Moroccan web sites at Ana's Moroccan WWW Sites and both print and web resources for independent travellers at Morocco Bound.
Cyberblanca is devoted to the classic movie Casablanca. There's not much on Morocco here, but then again, why let reality get in the way of a damn good story?
MOZAMBIQUE
The fighting is over. Come celebrate with the authors of Lonely Planet's Destination Mozambique.
One of the best sources of current news on Mozambique is Africa News On-Line.
Travel & Trade Publishing has several good sites with frequent and current updates and articles on travel in Mozambique.
Wondering if the dwarf cashew is thriving in Nampula? (It is.) Try the Mozambique News Agency for in-depth reporting on this and other riveting topics.
Johannesburg's Mail & Guardian has some good stories on Mozambique on their Open Africa page.
The Stanford Library has an excellent page of links to news and other sites.
WoYaa! has a large collection of links to Mozambican info on the web, much of which is in Portuguese. Many of the links are poorly labeled and reappear under different names, so be prepared to be frustrated.
Orientation Africa has a page on Mozambique with links to recent news stories, weather reports, newsgroups and a few other sites.
Runisland is a grab bag of stuff, heavy on le sportif, though you can print out black & white drawings suitable for colouring in by kids. Most of it's in French, but they have a lot in English.
Corinne Narassiguin's hobbies include a website on Réunion. There's a photo gallery (no captions though), miscellaneous info (mostly environmental) and a page of links (mostly to French-language sites.
Parlez-vous français? How about Wolof? Well, then, thank your lucky stars for Lonely Planet's Destination Senegal, because there ain't much else out there in English.
For an earful of what to expect (and we don't mean from your worried mother), tune into Radios.com and access their listing of Senegalese radio station websites.
Dakar's first cybercafe and French-speaking Africa's premier ISP, Métissicana offers all kinds of flashy, info-laden tidbits on their site.
You can get a quick sniff of the weather from Wunderground's Dakar page.
Dakar's the end-zone for several auto races, and the Thierry Sabine Organisation has its engines revved to tell you all about it.
Africa News Online tallies the continent's news stories and splays them out for your quick reference.
The Seychelles Super Site has all the usual background info on climate, people and so on, as well as tips on what to see and practical advice about Seychelles tourism.
Seychelles Travel will link you to a whole bunch of hotels and tour operators, for planning the nitty-gritty of your trip.
If you want to see pictures of palm trees, you've come to the right place: Tom's Gallery of Seychelles snaps.
For all the news you need on tortoises, air hostesses and Miss Seychelles '98, visit the country's newspaper, The Nation.
If you're interested in the Seychelles' devious history of coups and counter-coups, the Truth Commission's dry and text-heavy report on The Seychelles Case will crank your dial.
The Sierra Leone Web site has recent news, archives and political information.
Check out the official government site at Sierra Leone on the Web. When parliament is sitting, there are updates on debates, and it also reproduces newspaper editorials. Like the country itself, this site is still very much under construction.
A whole passle of news links can be found on the Somaliland Page - it tries to bring you both sides of the war story.
Any Somalian feminist going by the name of Queen Arawelo is worth a look. She not only takes up the cause, she also gives the low down on Somalian society and culture.
All the cool kids are going to a go-go at Lonely Planet's Destination Togo.
The Togo News section of the official Republic of Togo website is a handy source for up-to-the-minute reporting on this otherwise out-of-the-way destination. Both parts are also available in French.
The Griot in Kansas website comes to us from a Peace Corps volunteer recently returned from a stint in the Togolese village of Dzrekpo-Hagou. Did you read his one about the Rambo'd roaches?
Weldon D Burson's guide to and gallery of West African and Central African States banknotes is not only the work of a serious collector, but also a testament to the beauty of the region's artisans.
David Pauk's details of his 'roadtrip' to Togo and the music and memories he created make for a decent read, but it's the pictures of the people he met that really drive his point home.
TUNISIA
Before you go sacking, try hacking into Lonely Planet's Destination Tunisia.
Focus on Tunisia has a lot of useful info, music clips to accompany a good introduction to Tunisian music and a primer on the national cuisine.
Tunisia Online is a slick cyber-brouchure, but there's some interesting info on the culture and a link to Radio Tunis, which has a RealAudio feed.
The coverage at ArabNet's Tunisia page is wide, but not deep. The content is brief - one might say skimpy - but it's well organised and covers so many bases that you just might find what you're looking for anyway.
The start of your ride comes at the end of the alphabet: Lonely Planet's Destination Zambia.
The official Zambia site looks seriously hot and covers all the usual background information stuff.
Welcome to Zambia has information about everything to do with travel in Zambia - places to visit, ways to get around, contacts and links.
As well as a bit of background info, Travel & Tourism in Zambia has heaps of links to accommodation and safari providers.
All the serious news you're likely to want: Times of Zambia.
ZIMBABWE
If you follow the animal tracks, they all lead to Lonely Planet's Destination Zimbabwe.
Dip your snout in the waterhole of local weekly news at the Zimbabwe Independent.
There's a few pretty pix and a regional round-up of attractions at Zimbabwe Focus.
Africa Environment 2000 presents the plucky Rhino Girls, who pedalled 22,000km from Scotland to Zimbabwe to support Zimbabwe's endangered black rhinoceros.
Candice Bradley has a choice selection of links on her Zimbabwe Page, and the University of Pennsylvania has done the same on its Zimbabwe Page.
There's a herd of commercial safari operators on-line, so head for your favourite search engine and type the magic words 'Zimbabwe safari.'
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