Dynamic Africa
Formerly, "This is Africa/fyeahAfrica".
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Student, 24
Based in Cape Town, South Africa
From Lagos, Nigeria
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(since Oct. 21th 2012)
Hair braiding
Nigeria, 1960s.
A market in Kano, 1960s
Vintage Nigeria
Abdourahmane Sakaly (1926-1988)
Untitled, 1960
Pigment inkjet print, 2011, from original negative
17 x 17 inches (43.2 x 43.2 cm)
In 1960, Garanger, a 25-year-old draftee who had already been photographing professionally for ten years, landed in Kabylia, in the small village of Ain Terzine, about seventy-five miles south of Algiers. Garanger’s commanding officer decreed that the villagers must have identity cards: “Naturally he asked the military photographer to make these cards,” Garanger recalls. “Either I refused and went to prison, or I accepted.
“I would come within three feet of them,” Garanger remembers. “They would be unveiled. In a period of ten days, I made two thousand portraits, two hundred a day. The women had no choice in the matter. Their only way of protesting was through their look.”
Hocine Hassina remembers family members who disappeared during the Paris massacre of 1961, as she stands next to the Saint Michel Bridge by the Seine river in Paris. (Photo: Reuters)
The Paris massacre occured on october 17, 1961. As Algeria’s battle for independence spilled into France, Paris police chief Maurice Papon ordered police to crack down on thousands of Algerian protesters who defied a curfew. At least 300 algerians were killed (bodies were later pulled from the River Seine)
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Barbing salon in Onitsha, 1960’S circa.
I’m keeping tabs of hair and barbershop posts.
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Le Maroc, Editions Larousse (Monde et voyages), 1969.
Le Maroc, Editions Larousse (Monde et voyages), 1969.
Le Maroc, Editions Larousse (Monde et voyages), 1969.
Leopold Senghor in Dakar, Senegal at the Musée Dynamique in 1966.
Express Photographers, Kaduna, Nigeria, 1965
Studio portrait, 5 x 3 ¼ ins. (12.5 x 8 cm)
© Fine Vernacular Photography
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Portrait of Ali Hassan, ‘servant to Karen Bliken(sp?)’, by Peter Beard
Nairobi, Kenya.
1962
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A mother threads her daughter’s hair in Nigeria, 1964
Vintage Nigerian photos
In 1964, still living the dream of their recently gained independence, Zambia started a space program that would put the first African on the moon catching up the USA and the Soviet Union in the space race.
Only a few optimists supported the project by Edward Makuka, the school teacher in charge of presenting the ambitious program and getting its necessary funding. But the financial aid never came, as the United Nations declined their support, and one of the astronauts, a 16 year old girl, got pregnant and had to quit.
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Women and their children at The Infants Welfare and Maternity Clinic
Marmara district, Kano-Nigeria. (1960)
