The African Language Resource Council (also African Language Research Council) was an collaborative venture of the Linguistic Data Consortium and the African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania (U.S.). It was set up in the late 1990s and worked for a while on several projects.
Its purpose was described as: "to facilitate the creation and the publication of materials for the study of African languages, in particular dictionaries, grammars and texts. These resources, which will be published both in electronic and paper form, should be of considerable value for researchers and students around the world." (Liberman and Cieri 1998)
[Seeking updated information]
ALRC (old homepage) http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~seidlf/ALRC.html
Liberman, Mark, and Christopher Cieri. 1998. "The Creation, Distribution and use of Linguistic Data: The Case of the Linguistic Data Consortium." http://papers.ldc.upenn.edu/LREC1998/LREC1998.pdf
