Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent

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, 50 hours of sounds from forty-five different countries, as well as a large number of difficult to find texts that librarians, scholars, and other subject specialists have deemed important to these fields of study. It is hoped that the search features of the collection will be a convenient aid to scholarship, study, and teaching of these disciplines.<more>

Materials in the Collection:

• Africa Focus: Image and Audio Collection
• Africans in Bondage: Studies in Slavery and the Slave Trade
• Barbot's West African Vocabularies of ca. 1680
• Brief Treatise on the Rivers of Guinea
• Ethiopia Minor and a geographical account of the Province of Sierra Leone (ca. 1615)
• A Guide to Original Sources for Precolonial Western Africa Published in European Languages
• Harold Scheub's Images from South Africa
• Jesuit Documents on the Guinea of Cape Verde and the Cape Verde Islands, 1585-1617
• Raw, Medium, Well Done