This was in 1915 and shown in the photo are the women of Yagba in Egbe, now present-day Kogi State given what was described as ‘a lesson on how to wash clothes’ by white missionary, Mrs. Thomas Titcombe.

Egbe is an ancient town bordering Kwara and Kogi states and as far back as the early 20th century, it received foreign missionaries like Reverend Tommy Titcombe (a British-born Canadian missionary) and his wife a missionary with SIM (Sudan Interior Mission; now Serving In Mission) who arrived Egbe in 1908. Both of them later learnt Yoruba and the Yagba dialect with which they preached the gospel of Christ to the people. The popular Titcombe College was named for the reverend and they also set the foundation for the ECWA Hospital, Egbe, one of the biggest Christian hospitals in Kogi State.

Source: http://www.9janewsarena.com/2015/07/throwback-picture-nigerian-women-being.html

so they had not been washing clothes since before then

Dem for even say na oyinbo teach us ow to cook n eat. Mtcheew

Seen

Lies from the pit of hell...
Those people have been washing their clothes waaaay before 1915...wtf

Y is Africa backward?

Eurocentric photo. Does it mean the women did not know how to wash clothes before the missionaries came? Eurocentric photo, Eurocentric historiography. Back then Africa was viewed as the Dark Continent, populated by 'black, barbarous savages in picturesque but insignificant parts of the globe', and the whiteman came to teach us civilisation.

This kind of photo appealed to the Europeans' sense of superiority, and the readers back in the mother countries just lapped it up!!

I'll buy a washing machine for my wife.

See as that white lady stand like mgbeke. Tnk God for the 21st century . Even though racism still exist

hmm

Good...bad...ugly

And Buhari still wants Obama to still teach him things, like how to govern?

The Whites teachng us hw to do evrythng.. Includng hw to go into our wivess

So una get 5G?

too pianful to see this

Kai...oyibo na bas...tar..d..e don tey wey we enter one chance.

real throwback indeed, I respect the op

And there was London underground even in the 1890's yet our people don't know how to wash in 1915, no wonder they call us dark continent.

Honestly if not because of white people african will still be wearing leaves and skin as clothe

NDI ARA