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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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. …
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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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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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The island of Jerba (also Djerba) off the southeast coast of Tunisia is historically and culturally distinct from much of the rest of the country. The language accent, traditional clothing …
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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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Panels decorated with colorful cloth applique work form the walls of the tent. Similar panels with Islamic designs will be added for the ceiling.
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Water buffalo are valued as work animals, and as a source of rich milk and fertilizer.
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The entranceway is composed of tiles surrounding an arch of soft stone. The door itself is wood. There are Quranic verses over the entranceway.
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Note that only one of the woman's eyes is uncovered.
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Workshops for weaving were begun at Harraniyyah, near the Pyramids of Giza, in the 1950s by an architect, Ramses Wissa Wassef, to encourage children of the village to be creative. …
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Often used as a movie set.
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A veiled woman in sitting in front of a large door in the older section of Algiers.