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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At this time, Zimbabwe was independent but Namibia (South West Africa) was not. SWAPO resistance maintained offices in other countries.
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A family basks in the sun on a winter's morning outside their houses in the village of Mahalapye.
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The ensemble was collected by Professor Harold Scheub and shown in a museum exhibit at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1978.
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More prosperous farmers would have three houses plus a stone wall enclosure where cattle are kept at night.
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People carrying Republic flags are opposed to the Apartheid protesters.