Images of Africa (UC Santa Barbara Library)

Based in California, in the U.S., UC Santa Barbara Library’s special collection houses a wide range of rare, valuable, and unique items that explore this diversity. The Images of Africa exhibition draws upon research materials in Special Collections, by and about Africans over the past 400 years. Special Collections has long taken a global view in building its research collections whose materials support UCSB students, faculty, and research programs, as well as the scholarly community.
A listening kiosk with African music is installed as part of Images of Africa and features the CD Opika Pende, with 100 never-before-reissued 78 RPM recordings from 1909 to the 1960s.

The exhibition also contains items from the collection of David C. Tambo. David Tambo is the retired Head of Special Collections, who in his earlier days spent several years in Nigeria, first as a Peace Corps volunteer (1968-1970) and then doing dissertation-related field research (1975-1976).