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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Mr. Magwangu poses in front of the courtyard of the Mbanja chapel where we will meet with the initiate of the Boumba. The initiate is a young woman dressed in …
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This arch from the central desert of Colonel Qadaffi's is a symbol of the East meeting the West in Libya.
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A family basks in the sun on a winter's morning outside their houses in the village of Mahalapye.
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The ngoni is the predecessor of the American banjo. In this series, the makers of this instrument are members of the Diabate family of Segu. They are members of the …
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Women do multiple tasks at the same time. This picture illustrates a typical domestic setting with calabashes, firewood, a granary, and a mortar.
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The cap and raptor feathers denote the policeman's (iyol) occupational status. The phases in these initiation rituals of the Kuba-Bushong are: preliminaries; first masks in village; "wall"; induction through wall …