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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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 …


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The stool, shown here with mats, represents a bundle of stalks. Itg is a unique style.