Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent

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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This compilation (including design, introductory text, organization, and descriptive material) is copyrighted by University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents. This copyright is independent of any copyright on specific items within the collection. Because the University of Wisconsin Libraries generally do not own the rights to materials in these collections, please consult copyright or ownership information provided with individual items.



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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 flags are being displayed because the picture was taken on April 4, Senegal's Independence Day. The National Assembly Building is close to the Presidential Palace.


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A man is administered the ordeal after the woman was tried.



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The land in the foreground is used for farming.


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Gardening is one of the prinicpal activities of farmers during the dry season. After the grains have been harvested following the rainy season, vegetables are grown in sunken beds wide …


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