Wikipedia:GLAM/African Studies Centre Leiden/Some highlights 2024

Highlights of the on-line image collection by the African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL) at Wikimedia Commons

A pictorial lucky dip

by Hans Muller, ASCL Wikipedian in residence 2019-2024, 2024-12-19.

A Wikipedian in residence project

led by Jos Damen, head Leiden University African Library,

put some 6000+ historical photographs related to Africa and the ASCL on the internet over (2014-)2019-2024.

Caveat

Most of the African images here represent a past uniquely white perspective

on various parts of Africa over the 1960s-1990s,

So they cannot reflect the present 2020s African reality.

Dive in yourself

if you like at Category:African_Studies_Centre_Leiden (Wikimedia Commons)

Gallery
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like a eighteenth century museum of random curiosities
including photos by:

* Fred van der Kraaij, on Liberia

Idi Amin at the inauguration of William Richard Tolbert, 20th President of Liberia, Monrovia, Liberia, 1976.
Monument to President V. S. Tubman 1944-1971, Harper, Maryland County, Liberia, 1978.
Funeral dances of the Grebo people, Half Graway, Liberia, 1978
The Hanging of the Harper Seven, Liberia - 16 February 1979.

* Maarten van Dis, on Sudan

A view down into a crater lake - Jebel Marra (Jabal Marra), West Darfur, Sudan, 1971.
Women collecting salt, Jebel Marra (Jabal Marra), West Darfur, Sudan, 1961.
Women with salt in wicker baskets, Jebel Marra (Jabal Marra), West Darfur, Sudan, 1961.
Five women with salt in wicker baskets, Jebel Marra (Jabal Marra), West Darfur, Sudan, 1961.

* Aart Rietveld and Emile van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal, on polygamy in Nigeria and Togo

Polygamy. Driver Toro College marries his third wife, Nigeria, ca. 1972.
A Togo lineage-head explains his problems with polygamy, 1973.

* Angeline van Achterberg, on Mali

Anthropologist Angeline van Achterberg married a Touareg man and blended in.
The Touareg troudadour Amano with his family and tehardent, Timbuktu, Mali, 1996.
Government AIDS warning sign, Mali, 1996.
A female potter next to her oven, Oued Ris, Maroc, 1997

* Roel Coutinho, on Guinea Bissau

Vaccination by Roel Countinho, Ziguinchor, Senegal, 1973.
A Cuban doctor checking the heartbeat.
Searching for schistosomiasis worm eggs with a centrifuge, Guinea-Bissau 1973.
Coutinho book on the Guinea-Bissau Liberation struggle.

* Gerard van de Bruinhorst, on Somaliland

Nasiim Mohomed Ali Aar, author of Between Love, Past and Destiny, Hargeysa, 2019.
Jama Musse Jama: Visual mathematics, Hargeysa, 2019.
Rock painting in the caves of Laas Geel, 2019.
Cattle livestock market, Hargeisa, 2019.