African Archives 2

in #stach7 years ago (edited)

Femi Falana (Fela's lawyer), Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, and Beko Ransome-Kuti in 1993.
Beko was a medical doctor and activist who also happened to be 2 years Fela's junior. I believe Beko may be the only sibling that Fela sang about.
In "Underground System" Fela notes after citing many African leaders such as Ben Bella, Sekou Toure, Lumumba who had been taken out the following:
🎵 ...you nor see Mandela them wan kill am oh
you nor see Beko them wan kill am oh
you nor see my Broda them wan kill am oh🎵

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Nigeria's most feared military ruler - General Sani Abacha cutting his birthday cake in an undated photo.
Date: Sometime between 1993 and 1998

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U.S. Marines, attached to the racially segregated 3rd Supply Battalion, on break from their duty of supplying ammunition to the front lines during the Battle of Saipan, pause for a rest. Pictured are Pfc. Horace Boykin (on bicycle) and (left to right): Cpl. Willis T. Anthony, Pfc. Emmitt Shackleford and Pfc. Eugene Purdy. Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. July 1944.

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British Army Doctors tend to a wounded soldier of the 81st West African Division at an improvised operating theater in the Kaladan Valley. Soldiers of the 81st West Africa Division came from, primarily, the modern nations of Nigeria, The Gambia, Ghana and Sierra Leone and fought in the Second Arakan Campaign of the larger Burma Campaign against Imperial Japanese forces. Near Apaukwa, Kaladan Valley, Burma (Myanmar). August 1944.

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Independence Day in Zimbabwe, 1980

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Allied Senegalese Tirailleurs (French: Tirailleurs Sénégalais) board trains in Douala, Cameroon en route to Fort Lamy (N'Djamena) in Chad to join General Leclerc’s Free French Forces. Félix Éboué, the Governor of Chad (then part French Equatorial Africa), had proclaimed his allegiance to Charles de Gaulle and Free France. During the war, the French relied heavily upon Fort Lamy’s airport to move troops and supplies. Despite the name, not all Senegalese Tirailleurs were from modern-day Senegal. They were a corps of colonial infantry in the French Army recruited from French West Africa and throughout west, central and east Africa. Douala, Wouri, Cameroun, French Equatorial Africa (now, Republic of Cameroon). January 1941. Image taken by George Rodger.

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