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 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 …
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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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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.
