Digital Library - Selected African Holdings

Tinted lantern slide featuring a scene at a docking point on the Cross River, Calabar. Stands with thatched and corrugated iron roofs shelter wooden barrels of palm oil awaiting canoe …

Black and white photograph showing a folk dance at a mission-organised celebration at Eziama, in modern Imo state, south-eastern Nigeria. The celebration is described as a women's anniversary. A group …

Coloured lantern slide showing tall rubber trees enclosed by a wooden fence, probably on a rubber plantation. The rubber industry was and remains an important contributor to the Calabar economy. …

Black and white photograph showing Miss Brazier of the Methodist Missionary Society, head of evangelistic work near Ama Achara, south-eastern Nigeria. Miss Brazier stands with a group of Nigerian girls, …

Tinted lantern slide featuring a group of Calabar men, women and children. Three men wearing wraps around their waist stand at the front of the picture watched by a crowd. …

Black and white photograph of a Nigerian man dressed in a flowered robe wearing a false beard made of wool. He stands next to a plant in a large pot. …

"Missionshaus in Mbaga" ("Mission house in Mbaga"). Photograph of a belfry and a thatched house further back. Next to the belfry three African children are standing, in front of the …

Article published in the French journal Présence Africaine, no. 30, p. 25-39 titled: Portugal and the colonies of Angola and Guinea by C. Mahala.

Resolutions adopted by the first annual conference of the Revolutionary Committee of Mozambique - COREMO to be held between 12th May 1966 and 16 May 1966. The document has an …

Black and white photograph showing a piece of ground at Ama Achara in preparation for building a hospital for the Methodist Missionary Society. Five male Nigerian workers can be seen …