nku5:

Yes i am. This is a french soldier in a trench in world war 1

collynzo2: The source of this image calls it 'a Yoruba village' so someone is lieing here, and it's a painting.
www.delcampe.net/page/item/id%2C223791859%2Cvar%2Ccp-Ref-JP-T915--NIGERIA---a--YORUBA--Village%2Clanguage%2CE.html

orekayode:


Its not fake. it was the ability to produce colored outputs that was non existent in that era. Photo films are colored
but the pictures came out in white and black then because printers or whatever equipment was used then to print couldnt
portray those colors. I say these as a student of photography and science. You can look it up if you dont believe me

nku5: I stumbled across this picture of a village taken in a village in the niger-delta before the environmental degradation set in.

Notice how clean the water was then. I can imagine the kind of fish they would have been feasting on back then. That part of the country also has good soil and used to be heavy on agriculture back then.

obakovich: The vegetation is not that of the Niger Delta,we dnt have a Sandy soil like that. It looks more of a picture from senegal. The vegetation is mangrove and not palm. Segun if na me u no go post see as them dey lie and na front page because I no be yoruba. Rubbish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

otanaworld: As a young Niger Delta boy even in the early 70s such good looking natural environment existed in the Niger Delta.
1. I remembered going to pick periwinkles in the swarms meeting blue coloured water that is reflecting the blue skies in a hot afternoon like that.
2. I remembered especially on a rainy day and especially at night going to creeks with only Calabash and bare hands coming home with good catch of fishes
3. I remembered using such clean (so to say) sea waters tasting salty to soak my garri padling my canoe while returning from Kaa or Iyanaba market
4. I remembered not bothering about tap water every morning to bath to school but jumping into this river like you do in this modern day swimming pole, wash mysely come out robe high scenting pomade and off to school
5. I remembered having my canoe capsided on the sea and I swarm to safety without any poluted water with oil to choke me
6. But I also remembered afterwards on Sobiekiri river many canoes with people on the water, someone mistakenly threw a cigaret stub on the water and it caught fire and so many people were burnt to dead including good swimmers who jumped into the river to see if they could dive past the burning oil on the water
7. No doubt about that picture
Q.E.D

collynzo2: The source of this image calls it 'a Yoruba village' so someone is lieing here, and it's a painting.
www.delcampe.net/page/item/id%2C223791859%2Cvar%2Ccp-Ref-JP-T915--NIGERIA---a--YORUBA--Village%2Clanguage%2CE.html

VoodooDoll: It's a pity that their leaders are mostly too corrupt, incompetent and too bethroned to GEJ and PDP (and similar wasted politicians) to reverse the current tragedy.

nku5: I stumbled across this picture of a village taken in a village in the niger-delta before the environmental degradation set in.

Notice how clean the water was then. I can imagine the kind of fish they would have been feasting on back then. That part of the country also has good soil and used to be heavy on agriculture back then.

donchisel:

Just wondering how coloured camera got to Niger Delta Village in 1960. How many coloured Cameras were in existence at that time?

Abagworo: Those arguing whether its artist impression or filmed photograph should rather face the reason for the post. Being an artists impression or painting doesn't discredit the reality which we all know. The Niger Delta was very beautiful, green and fertile as recent as the 70s. What has happened in Niger Delta is a microcosm of Nigeria as a whole. Sokoto was once a green and beautiful savannah but today has suffered from desertification. The Lagos waters which are dirty today used to be clear and blue in the past.

We should all demand for a good leader that will restore Nigeria and if possible allow every State manage their resources. That way, there will be enough money for Niger Deltans to clean up the accumulated mess while the Sokoto people will explore their uranium and use it to restore their lost vegetation.

Policewoman: This goes to show that we have many naive children in Nairaland. How can somebody tell me there were no coloured pictures in Nigeria in the 60's and even in the 50's?

nku5: I stumbled across this picture of a village taken in a village in the niger-delta before the environmental degradation set in.

Notice how clean the water was then. I can imagine the kind of fish they would have been feasting on back then. That part of the country also has good soil and used to be heavy on agriculture back then.

nora544:

Sorry that is no painting that is like photos look at that time. I can show you so many photos from that time and why you couldnot beliefe.
http://pinterest.com/ewserk/vintage-color-photos/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography