Africa

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Safari Tracks takes viewers on an African safari- focusing on African wildlife and the magnificent and mysterious world of these animals, all in their natural habitat. Follow Ushaka each and every week as we explore the African continent, from the brush lands of the African Savanna to the great Okavango delta… and beyond.

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The Greatest Places: Namib

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The Greatest Places: Okavango Delta

Time for Kids: South Africa

Africa (Ducksters) General information on the continent. Also, links to individual country information.

= 8 maps that will change the way you look at Africa = You already know that Africa isn’t a country. But what else? Check out these maps and put the continent’s population, income, growth, and potential into context.

**Living in Africa** Have you ever wondered what it would be like to grow up in Africa? CBBC Newsround is investigating just what life is like for kids living on the vast and varied continent. Click through this guide for a taster of what African children must contend with on a daily basis.

**African Instruments**
BBC article with pictures of traditional instruments [|__http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/music/world_music/music_africa1.shtml__]

Annotated list of instruments from Sub-Saharan Africa (with images and descriptions): [|__http://orgs.usd.edu/nmm/Africa/SubSaharanAfrica.html__]

MFA Boston African Musical Instruments collection tour- hi-res images and descriptions [|__http://www.mfa.org/node/9425__]

Met Museum (Heilburn Timeline of Art History) African and Egyptian musical instruments collection: [|__http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/hi_miocaf.htm__]

Audible Artworks- Smithsonian exhibit with info about different instruments: [|__http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/aud_art/__]

Smithsonian Folkways- Traditional African Music [|__http://www.folkways.si.edu/traditional-african-ritual-music-of-guyana/african-american-music-sacred-world/album/smithsonian__]

Interactive learning to play various African musical instruments: [|__http://www.dancedrummer.com/museum.html__]

Brooklyn Children’s Museum: Musical Instruments of Africa portable collection lesson plans [|__http://www.brooklynkids.org/attachments/Instruments_Africa_HiRes.pdf__]

Wake Forest Museum of Anthropology Teacher’s Guide [|__http://moa.wfu.edu/files/2012/04/ShakeRattle-Teachers-Guide.pdf__]

African Music Encylopedia [|__http://www.africanmusic.org/__]

Contemporary African Art [|__http://www.contemporary-african-art.com/african-musical-instruments.html#sthash.eCF1gF49.dpbs__]

Studying Africa Through the Humanities [|__http://exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu/teachers/curriculum/m13/notes.php__]

Kid friendly musical instrument crafts: [|__https://makingmulticulturalmusic.wordpress.com/tag/african-instrument/__]

Explore Africa PBS site (kids stuff no longer available) [|__http://www.pbs.org/wnet/africa/index.html__]

Teacher Piece for background: [|__http://artsites.ucsc.edu/igama/2%20-%20encyclopedia/e-legam%20content%20files/c%20-%20faaiscj/01_chapter1.pdf__]

Description of instruments in the Oriental Institute Collection- interesting for how they describe the objects: [|__http://oi-idb.uchicago.edu/#Q/W3siZGF0YXNldCI6Ik1DIiwib3BlcmF0b3IiOiIiLCJmaWVsZCI6IklzT25EaXNwbGF5IiwidGVybSI6IlllcyIsImZpZWxkQWxpYXMiOiJPbiBEaXNwbGF5In0seyJkYXRhc2V0IjoiTUMiLCJvcGVyYXRvciI6IkFORCIsImZpZWxkIjoiU3JjaE9iamVjdCIsInRlcm0iOiJNdXNpY2FsIEluc3RydW1lbnQiLCJmaWVsZEFsaWFzIjoiT2JqZWN0IFR5cGUgLyBEZXNjcmlwdGlvbiJ9XQ==__]

Smithsonian Museum of African Art- more for visual art than musical instruments: [|__http://africa.si.edu/__]