African Archives-3

Yendi Brass Band. Instructions to a village brass band.
Location: Yendi, Togoland
Date: 1953

St. George's Castle at Elmina on the shores of the Gold Coast. Elmina Castle, as it is usually called, and other forts were built along the coast by the Portuguese after their first settlement in 1482.
Location: Gold Coast, Elmina, Ghana, United Kingdom
Date: January 1957

Ken Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority in Nigeria whose homeland, Ogoniland, in the Niger Delta has been targeted for crude oil extraction since the 1950s

Child soldiers in Angola taking a smoke break
1976

The Portuguese. Entrance to the caves.
Location: Elephanta Caves, Mumbai

A Calabar chief, with sceptre and crown.” 1901, Calabar. Photo by Mary Henrietta Kingsley

Nelson Mandela walking free after his treason trial, 1961

Rashidi Yekini, The greatest football Striker the Nigerian senior football team has ever had.

A bus stop outside the new extension to the General Post Office in Accra. The General Post Office is one of the many new modern buildings which to-day grace the streets of Accra, the capital of the Gold Coast.
Location: Gold Coast, Accra, Ghana
Date: January 1957

African manning a Coastal Defence Gun.
Location: Kenya

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