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)
Hair braiding
Nigeria, 1960s.
Mozambique:
“Two Makua women of northern Mozambique in the late 19th century wearing head scarves known as lenço and wrap around cloth capulana. The ‘Paisley’ pattern worn by the woman on the left became immensely popular in eastern Africa because of its similarity to the shape of the cashew nut which symbolises wealth and fertility.
The cashew nut is a major source of income in eastern and southern Africa which is one reason why the ‘Paisley’ pattern on textiles became immensely popular because of its similarity to the shape of the cashew. From the mid-nineteenth century, printed textiles in eastern and southern Africa, where slavery was not officially abolished until 1897, were increasingly worn as a sign of proud emancipation, freedom and personal prosperity.” From: zeitgeistafrica.com
1910 Congo - Turumbu Man Tattoo Scarification
Malawi:
Vintage photo of Chiefs from the Yao and Angoni ethnic groups, late 1930s in (then) Nyasaland
A market in Kano, 1960s
Vintage Nigeria
South Africa:
Vintage Portraits from South Africa in the 1960s
*From: Bobson Photography Studio
Never get tired of vintage shots from the whole African diaspora. If you’re from Southern Africa, please share your vintage shots from your past - few of them exist in the public collections outside of capturing apartheid and colonialism in the streets. Always wonderful to see people exist outside and beside politics. A true reminder that they still smiled and still persevered.
Swaziland:
Powerful & beautiful images of Swazis - early 1970s
*photos by Ludo Kuipers
(apologies for the mediocre quality of some shots…hard to get good originals but I hope the elegance of the Swazis makes up for it )
(via endilletante)
Can’t find any detailed info on this photograph but my best guess is that it was taken somewhere in either West or North Africa, but most likely the former.
Vintage postcard of a man from Eritrea.
Vintage colonial postcard of a woman from Djibouti.
Vintage photographs of Kunama people, a Nilotic ethnic group who live mostly in Eritrea and Ethiopia where they are a minority in both.
Fashions of Nigerian women in 1971 by Donanne Hunter.
