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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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 …
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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 …
