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African Voices
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An aqal, a portable home used in Somalia by herding communities, and listen as two Somali immigrants recall their early lives in the aqal

The Market Crossroads, a re-creation of a busy marketplace in Accra, Ghana, where you can view goods from yams to kola nuts to kitchenware and learn why the market remains a central part of Ghanaian daily life

Two ciwara—wooden antelope masks—representing the mythical animals that taught farming to the Bamana people of Mali
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Things To Do
- Pause in any of 11 “listening stations” to hear Africans’ stories in their own words, as well as music and atmospheric soundscapes.
- Step into the Mud Masons of Mali gallery to learn how tradesmen in the ancient city of Djenné build and re-build the community’s beautiful and distinctive buildings and historic mosque from baked-earth bricks and plaster.
- Stop by the Freedom Theater to watch two short films: “Atlantic Slave Trade” and “The Struggle for Freedom.”