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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Yoruba

Agemo is a masking festival for community founders.




English

The bellows are made out of animal skin and the anvil is a large rock. The smelting shop is located in the Boundji region.




English

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. …



English

Prior to 1983, all college graduates served the nation at a fixed salary for two years to repay the State for their education. After 1983, young people did one year …


English

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.