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About the Collection
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 countires, 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.
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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 countires, 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.
Although African studies is a relatively new discipline, the field has generated a large body of publications in the
past 45 to 50 years. Most of these of course were published in garden-variety ways, in sufficient copies to remain
reasonably available in today's much improved document-delivery environment. Nonetheless, there have been
exceptions--materials that were published in limited, sometimes very limited, quantities, but which have produced
a demand beyond the capacity of their initial print run to satisfy. In fact, fewer than ten copies were produced
of some of the titles in this collection.
Top of Page Technical Note
Please note that full-text searching for the electronic-facsimile texts in our collections is based on uncorrected OCR (Optical Character Recognition) results. While such text is often highly accurate, it will contain errors that may affect your search results. In particular, texts with the following characteristics are particularly prone to error (in some cases, accuracy for such texts is so low that we have decided not to attempt to provide full-text searching):
- Hand-written texts;
- Texts that contain diacritics;
- Texts that contain non-Latin scripts;
- Texts that contain obsolete characters (including the "long S" [looks like an "f"]);
- Texts that are printed in a font in which the letters are difficult for the software to differentiate.
Other Materials in the 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
- Jesuit Documents on the Guinea of Cape Verde and the Cape Verde Islands, 1585-1617
- Raw, Medium, Well Done
Related materials:
- African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning from the Bayly Art Museum of the University of Virginia
- African Heritage Architecture
- African Studies Program - University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Dogon-Lobi Photo Album
- East Asian Collection
- Foreign Relations of the United States
- Multimedia Archives from African Studies at the University of Pennsylvania
- Posters from the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University
- SouthEast Asian Images & Texts
- Yoruba and Akan Art at the Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois