The AMP is part of the Outreach Program of the MSU Title VI National Resource Center in African Language and Area Studies.
Credits and Funders
This project has received the assistance of literally hundreds of individuals, organizations, and firms, not all of which can be acknowledged.
Funding
Generous support for both phases of the AMC/AMP project (the completion of the compendium and the current web accessible data-base) was provided by a number of institutions. The National Endowment for the Humanities and the U.S. Department of Education, Division of Advanced Training and Research, provided generous support for the first phase of the African Media Center , as it was then called. The U.S. Department of Education through the Program for Internationalizing Undergraduate Education provided support for the development of the current web-based data-base (phase two). In addition, for the past six years the U.S. Department of Education provided partial salary support for the AMP coordinator through a Title VI grant supporting the MSU African Studies Center as a National Resource Center for African Studies.
Michigan State University through Office of the Provost, Office of the Dean for International Studies and Programs, and the African Studies Center provided invaluable support for the project through generous salary support for project administrators and ancillary staff and through the provision of computers and other essential equipment.
The African National Congress Archive contains approximately 10,000 units of video and film materials, most not yet incorporated into edited productions. These materials focus on the activities in exile of the ANC, SACP, and SACTU with videos and films from Zambia , Angola , Lesotho , Botswana , Uganda , Tanzania (especially the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College at Mazimbu). Featured in this footage are most of the famous ANC leaders who were in exile and also the training activities of Umkhonto we Sizwe , the military wing of the ANC.
Funding for the South Africa Film and Video Project has been provided initially by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Michigan State University . A new grant is being provided the U.S. Department of Education and its Program on Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access.