The Story of Africa from the BBC World Service.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/
index_section4.shtml

The Achievements and Challenges of Mali.
http://www.worldtrek.org/odyssey/teachers/malilessons.html

The History Channel lesson on Timbuktu.
http://www.history.com/classroom/unesco/timbuktu.html
http://www.history.com/classroom/unesco/timbuktu.html

Timbuktu: The Mythical Site.
http://www.unesco.org/whc/whreview/article7.html

Resources for Mali.
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/
Mali.html

The Art of Ancient Mali is an educational Web site to accompany
the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts' classroom poster on the art of ancient Mali, with examples from the museum's extensive collection of African art. This site has lesson plans related to the Standards of Learning.
http://www.vmfa.state.va.us/mali_geo_hist.html

Official Embassy of the Republic of Mali Web site, which has current information on Mali, including the history of Mali, Exploring Mali, and Mali Interactive.
http://www.maliembassy.us/new_site/default.htm

This is a good source of photographs by Huib Blom depicting art, architecture, people, and everyday life of Mali.
http://www.dogon-lobi.ch/

The National Museum of Mali has created this virtual museum which shows traditional instruments and provides the sounds they create.
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Instruments/Anglais/mnm_c_txt02_en.html

The Road to Timbuktu, the PBS Web site, has information and photographs about Mali.
http://www.pbs.org/wonders/fr_wn.htm

The Eliot Elisofon Archives, National Museum of African Art, contains 12,000 photographic images of Africa.
http://www.siris.si.edu

African History (Stanford University).
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/history/hisking.html

Ibn Battuta.
http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch618/Ibn_Battuta/Ibn_Battuta_Rihla.html

Mali history.
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A0859453.html

Mali interactive, photo album and interviews.
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~anth/arch/mali-interactive/

Inagina, the last house of iron, film.
http://archeo.unige.ch/inagina/index.gb.html

River of Sand documentary film.
http://kensingtontv.com/go/riverofsand/indextop.html

African lesson plans, Utah Museum of Fine Arts.
http://www.umfa.utah.edu/index.php?id=NDE3
http://www.umfa.utah.edu/index.php?id=MTI1

Art and life in Africa Online produced by University of Iowa (good site!).
http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/index.html

World Book Encyclopedia Online.
http://www.worldbookonline.com/na/htm/zone/stm/1200/sun/sun02.htm


Kingdoms

Discusses the reasons for the rise and fall of the Mali and Songhai empires.
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/collapse/mali.html


Sites in Mali

Djenne
UNESCO's report on historic Djenne.
http://www.unesco.org/whc/sites/116.htm

Nice photos, and summary of Djenne when it was known as a center of Islamic learning and pilgramage.
http://www.sacredsites.com/africa/djenne.html


Timbuktu
UNESCO's report on Timbuktu.
http://www.unesco.org/whc/sites/119.htm

Dogon peoples
Good photos and summary of Dogon people and their religious beliefs.
http://www.sacredsites.com/africa/dogon.html