INSIDE AFRICA FACT SHEET
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WHAT: "INSIDE AFRICA" is hosted by Cincinnati Museum Center, in association with the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. It is produced by Clear Channel Exhibitions, based on a permanent display at the Field Museum in Chicago.
NATIONAL SPONSORS: Procter & Gamble Company
PURPOSE: To explore the diversity of the world's second largest continent. The exhibit views the continent and its peoples from historical and contemporary perspectives through hands-on activities, multimedia presentations an impressive collection of African artifacts.
SECTIONS: 1) Families and Festivals, 2) Safari, 3) Caravan, 4) Diaspora
EXHIBIT SIZE: 6,300 square feet
LENGTH OF TOUR: November 2002 - 12-city, 5-year tour
POINTS OF INTEREST:
 Kora. (Families and Festivals) A kora is a musical instrument made by
attaching a long, wooden neck to a calabash. Players pluck and strum as many as 21 strings and drum on the kora's hollow body. The kora on display once belonged to renowned musician and griot Soriba Kouyate.
Gorilla family research. (Safari) Visitors can peer through binoculars to view videos of a mountain gorilla family at play.
Tuareg tent. (Caravan) The mobile home of a caravaneer, an actual tent made of goat skins displays the belongings of a Tuareg family. Tuareg merchants love their nomadic desert life, crisscrossing the Sahara on camels to reach metropolitan trading cities.
Slave ship. (Diaspora) Within the darkened interior of a slave ship, spotlights illumine the silhouettes of four enslaved Africans as they tell their individual stories. Each story begins in a different African language, with its translation completed in English or Spanish.
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