People of South Africa: Boy with a Basket. Photo by Harold Scheub.
Dr. Harold Scheub, the Evjue-Bascom Professor of Humanities in the Department of African Languages and Literature, is one of the world's leading scholars in African oral traditions and folklore.
Thousands of UW Madison students know Professor Scheub as the 'African Storyteller' on campus.
To record oral traditions, Scheub has walked more than 6,000 miles through South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Lesotho. He has also published more than two dozen books and more than 70 articles.
Now, you can listen to Scheub's recordings and see his images of Africa taken during his fieldwork in the late 1960s and into the 1970s in the Harold E. Scheub Digital Collection.
The collection includes South African voices, images and sounds.