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A Nigerian market in the 1940s. Iddo Island

Fishermen and trap at Olokemeji. 1910

A group of I[g]bo warriors in ancient battle dress

Ibo Warfare, M. D. W. Jeffreys, 1956

Hausa man in 1900

A Nigerian chief with his family, 1910

Yoruba people in 1898

An unidentified Queen of Old Calabar 1907. Publisher Unknown

Going through Nigeria photo achieves and i stumbled upon this....seems child marriage is a total Nigerian thing

A freed Yoruba slave from Bahia, Brazil. 1800s

Ilekeh:
Cool.

ok have created it check my profile ull see the post...abeg rate it

Martiniano Eliseu do Bomfim Yoruba name was Òjélàdé, (1859-1943), was born in Bahia, Brazil. His father was a member of the Egba, one of the Yoruba sub-groups, had been brought to Brazil as a slave in 1820 and liberated there in 1842. A 16-year-old Martiniano accompanied his father, Eliseu do Bomfim, who was an import/export trader of Yoruba goods, on a trip from Salvador, Bahia to Lagos, Yorubaland in 1875 for the purpose of attending school and learning a trade. In Lagos he attended the Church Missionary Society Alápákó Fàájì School for almost 11 years. He arrived back in Salvador on January 30, 1886. During his time in Lagos Martiniano became fluent not only in English but also in Yoruba. He also acquired knowledge of Ifá, the Yoruba system of divination and became a Babalawo, as well as being trained as a bricklayer and house painter. Back in Bahia he worked as an English teacher for well to do Afro-Brazilians. Martiniano died on November 1, 1943 in Salvador, Bahia. Photo: 1937

Gotten from
http://nigerianostalgia.tumblr.com/

in the same vain ill be uploading old Nigerian archives..



Cândido da Fonseca Galvão, also known as Oba II d’Africa (1845-1890) was a Brazilian man who fought in the War of the Triple Alliance (also called the Paraguayan War) and claimed to be the grandson of an African prince whose son had been brought to Brazil as a slave. Galvão himself was born a free man in Bahia, and enlisted in the military at a time when Black slavery was still legal in what was then the Empire of Brazil.

Galvão was the grandson of the powerful African prince Alafin Abiodun, who unified the Yoruba kingdom of Oyó in the late eighteenth century. Galvão’s father fought in the wars that raged in that region of Africa in the early nineteenth century, was captured in battle, and sold into slavery. He was then transported to Bahia. With the help of friends among the Yoruba community in Salvador, Galvão’s father quickly purchased his freedom. He then married and had children. As an offspring of freedpersons, Cândido Galvão was raised as a free black man near the town of Lençóis in the interior of Bahia.

Dom Obá II considered it his duty to fight for his country in the war against Paraguay. “As the patriotic soldier that I am, I understand that I have only been doing my duty in taking an active part in all the matters that I understand to be grave.” Enlisting as a Voluntário in the all-black Zuavo company that departed from Lençóis on May 1865, Galvão remained at the front until wounded in his right hand in August 1866. After his return to Bahia, where he remained through the decade of the 1870s, Galvão petitioned government officials for recognition of his service during the war and for monetary compensation. His experience in Paraguay inspired his commitment to ending slavery in Brazil and his pride in being a black man.

Galvão settled in Rio de Janeiro in 1880, where he gained renown. The wealthy considered him a “disturbed veteran” (uma espécie de veterano resmungão) and “folkloric aberration” due to his outspokenness and appearance in attire that included a long black morning coat, tall hat, gloves, umbrella, and walking cane. An activist of the first order, Galvão met personally with the Emperor [Pedro II of Brazil] 125 at public meetings from June 1882 to December 1884! Dom Obá garnered great respect among “the Blacks and the Browns” (the terms commonly used by Galvão) residing in the city. Slaves, freedpersons, and free persons of color all provided financial support that enabled the prince to publish articles in newspapers. In his writings, Galvão praised the contributions of black and brown soldiers during the Paraguayan war, condemned the racism he witnessed in Brazil, and called for an end to slavery.

(Source: Dale Torston Graden, From Slavery to Freedom in Brazil: Bahia, 1835-1900.)

Galvão died in 1890, shortly after the abolition of slavery in Brazil and the establishment of the Brazilian republic. An biography of Galvão, entitled Prince of the People, was published in 1993.

Ilekeh:
Can't recall.....that was January, this is March. But I think googling "pre-independence Yoruba women" will take you to varying sources. You will find tons of research on Yorubas.

thanks actually have gotten it on tumblr as NIGERIAN NOSTALGIA PROJECT
WATCH OUT FOR MY TREND TOO

Ilekeh:

op please where did you get this images from can u pls refer me

nairaman66:
She is missing in Canada.

America and canada...r almost the same thing in nature
Canada is at the backyard of america

RIP TO THE DEAD...
HOPE THEY WERE SAVED

I hope she is found...

Gbam to all those just mis-quoting me have removed it

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She don bright pass her future...before we knw it she will become darker and rubbish looking than her past

Nigerian Army advancement to Boko Haram camps




L-R A 12.7mm machine gun-armed Steyr 4K 7FA APC drives behind a 73mm gun-armed BVP-1 Infantry Fighting Vehicle
A MOWAG APC drives behind a 73mm gun-armed BVP-1 Infantry Fighting Vehicle
SCREENGRABS & TECHNICAL SUPPORT: MCSHEGZ

source:https://beegeagle./2015/03/23/field-imagery-a-nigerian-army-column-advancing-2/

this the video link
http://video.aljazeera.com/channels/eng/videos/the-nigerian-task-force-fighting-boko-haram-in-borno/4129169070001

Ill be back...incase

Lalasticlala mods

chilafabrics:
Asuokaa is that the picture of Asadike on your profile...shes beautiful

thanks

ill continue later on

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RWANDA
RMA GAKO

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