In Africa, visitors can
  • Accept an invitation to a Tabaski feast in Senegal;
  • Watch a masked dance performed by the Bamum people of Cameroon's Grassfields;
  • Test hypotheses about the behavior of savanna animals, and observe mountain gorillas through binoculars;
  • Survey the wares—from camel saddles to amulets—at a market in the Sahara;
  • Emerge from the hold of a slave ship to see the rich legacy of Africans in American life; and explore many other manifestations of the complex weaving of Africa's ecology and culture.
This figure is called "nkondi" meaning "agreement." -Nkondi "nkisi," Bakongo; Ziare. © The Field Museum A91300 John Weinstein
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