Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Africa Focus brings together, in digital form, two categories of primary and secondary resources: research and teaching materials collected by University of Wisconsin faculty and staff; and unique or valuable items related to these fields held by the University of Wisconsin Libraries. This collection contains more than 3000 slides, 500 photographs, and 50 hours of sounds from forty-five different countries.
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The bellows are made out of animal skin and the anvil is a large rock. The smelting shop is located in the Boundji region.
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Haj Andalus was a fashionable residential suburb for wealthier people before the revolution of 1969. Since there is very little rain, rainbows occur only three or four times a year. …
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Prior to 1983, all college graduates served the nation at a fixed salary for two years to repay the State for their education. After 1983, young people did one year …
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Kosai are bean cakes made from black-eyed peas and, in this region, eaten dipped in a powder of red pepper, ginger, and salt. They are a breakfast food.
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The phases in these initiation rituals of the Kuba-Bushong are: preliminaries; first masks in village; "wall"; induction through wall and tunnel; camp in bush (no pictures!); forays of boys near …
