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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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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The Citadel, located on a prominent hill in Cairo, was built by Salah al-Din as a fortress in the 12th Century. Rulers of Egypt lived there until 1874.
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Fertile fields, vineyards, and orchards are found bordering the Nile from Aswan north to the Delta beyond Cairo. The remaining land, 96% of Egypt, is desert.
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The present Mena House Hotel is one of Cairo's premier hotels,. The building incorporates the old Mena House (opened 1901) which gained world fame as the site of three historic …
