African Online Digital Library

African Online Digital Library

Michigan State University

AODL provides free universal access to cultural heritage materials from and about African countries and communities. It brings together digitized photographs, videos, archival documents, maps, interviews and oral histories in numerous African languages, many of which are contained in curated thematic galleries and teaching resources. AODL is aimed at a broad international constituency, from university researchers and secondary school teachers to individuals seeking to inform themselves about African people on the continent and in the diaspora.


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Customers standing, tomatoes on sack.


MSU: Michigan State University

I know what is bad and what is good for me.


MSU: Michigan State University

As I understood the teachings of Islam, I pledged to let my fellow Muslims also know more about Islam and the Koran. That is why I prefer teaching.



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Small girl standing behind praying women in the mosque.


MSU: Michigan State University

Muslim traders settled freely in Kumasi after British conquest in 1898, but they had to negotiate a place for themselves politically and economically as a minority. Each immigrant ethnic group …


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Hajia Habiba in her stall with double axles in Suame Magazine.


MSU: Michigan State University

All that we need is unity.


MSU: Michigan State University

This wronged husband is appealing to the Asantehene because he feels the chief of his ethnic community in Kumasi has been unfair.


MSU: Michigan State University

They are not doing it for Islam.