Dynamic Africa
Formerly, "This is Africa/fyeahAfrica".
(Profile Photo by Mama Casset)
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A LITTLE ABOUT ME:
Student, 24
Based in Cape Town, South Africa
From Lagos, Nigeria
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(since Oct. 21th 2012)
Ivan Bilibin - Cairo 1921
Born in 1876 in Saint Petersburg, Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin was a Russian illustrator and stage designer. Bilibin is part of the ‘Art Nouveau’ artistic period. He died in 1942.
(via endilletante)
Nigerian couple, dressed in Western-style clothing.
The woman is Comfort Ayename, a senior nurse at Sacred Heart Hospital in Abeokuta, Ogun state, Nigeria.
1920s
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Dancers of the Ngbogha-Ndem association [of the Ejagham], Cameroon, photographed by Mansfeld (1927).
This women’s society is no longer active, and only a few members are still alive.
— Ute M. Röschenthaler](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6yrv1ih3z1qjh37to1_500.jpg)
Dancers of the Ngbogha-Ndem association [of the Ejagham], Cameroon, photographed by Mansfeld (1927).
This women’s society is no longer active, and only a few members are still alive.
— Ute M. Röschenthaler
A view of a tower in Cairo, 1920.
Taken by Gervais Courtellemont and W. Robert Moore for National Geographic.
A man peers out from a latticework covered balcony, Egypt, 1920.
Taken by Gervais Courtellemont and W. Robert Moore for National Geographic.
Two men make tents, Egypt, 1920.
Taken by Gervais Courtellemont and W. Robert Moore for National Geographic.
An Egyptian street merchant sells fruit, Egypt, 1920.
Taken by Gervais Courtellemont and W. Robert Moore for National Geographic.
Arab Women from southern Algeria
circa 1920s
Hair - dressing as a work of art. (1921)
“Charcoal dust and palm oil are freely used, but should necessity arise, the structure must be cut away entirely as it cannot be ‘undone’”.
Igbo woman, Nigeria
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