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Pre-independence Yoruba Women by Ilekeh(op): 11:43pm On Jan 12, 2015*

Beautiful women!

pix 1: Yoruba women

Pix 2:
Miss E.A Adebonojo, a Nigerian Student Studying At University Of London
Geography class at Marlborough Senior Girls School
Islesworth 1946.

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Re: Pre-independence Yoruba Women by Ilekeh(op): 11:49pm On Jan 12, 2015

Miss Nigeria

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Re: Pre-independence Yoruba Women by Ilekeh(op): 11:51pm On Jan 12, 2015

Eko (Lagos)

Idumago in 1920s

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Re: Pre-independence Yoruba Women by Ilekeh(op): 11:53pm On Jan 12, 2015

A Yoruba woman in 1956, at Lagos, Yorubaland. During Queen Elizabeth's visit to Yorubaland and the rest of Nigeria

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Re: Pre-independence Yoruba Women by tomakint: 11:53pm On Jan 12, 2015

Beautiful attires, faces, poses and culture is all what I see. African women are beautiful truly! This is nice and simple!

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Re: Pre-independence Yoruba Women by Ilekeh(op): 11:53pm On Jan 12, 2015

tomakint:
Beautiful attires, faces, poses and culture is all what I see. African women are beautiful truly! This is nice and simple!

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Re: Pre-independence Yoruba Women by Ilekeh(op): 12:00am On Jan 13, 2015

https://kokofeed.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/funmilayo-ransome-kuti.jpg

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Re: Pre-independence Yoruba Women by Ilekeh(op): 12:03am On Jan 13, 2015

[img]http://goldmyne.tv/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1394399_636805983038348_923638314_n.jpg[/img]

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Re: Pre-independence Yoruba Women by Ilekeh(op): 12:11am On Jan 13, 2015

Olori Adeyoyin Adenle in 4-piece old Omolangidi intricatively-woven [the overlay design was called omolangidi] aso oke. The fourth piece – the iborun – is on her laps.

[img]http://emotan.files./2013/04/yoruba-woman-dressed-for-a-formal-occasion-late-1950s.jpg[/img]

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Re: Pre-independence Yoruba Women by KMB: 12:13am On Jan 13, 2015

Interesting....so how did all that natural and unique beauty just disappear that these days ladies can't do without makeup.

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Re: Pre-independence Yoruba Women by Ilekeh(op): 12:22am On Jan 13, 2015

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Re: Pre-independence Yoruba Women by Ilekeh(op): 12:26am On Jan 13, 2015

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Re: Pre-independence Yoruba Women by Ilekeh(op): 12:32am On Jan 13, 2015

[img]http://1.bp..com/-BdyhXhyos_A/VEbH-V3_DPI/AAAAAAAAAmI/NZVOLBrd9N4/s1600/drewal_pic.jpg[/img]

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Re: Pre-independence Yoruba Women by Ilekeh(op): 12:33am On Jan 13, 2015

[img]http://emotan.files./2012/12/everyagegbportrait.jpg[/img]

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Re: Pre-independence Yoruba Women by Ilekeh(op): 12:38am On Jan 13, 2015

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Re: Pre-independence Yoruba Women by Ilekeh(op): 12:46am On Jan 13, 2015

We are blessed with abundant multiple births (twins, triplets etc)

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Re: Pre-independence Yoruba Women by Ilekeh(op): 12:50am On Jan 13, 2015

Yoruba potter

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Re: Pre-independence Yoruba Women by Ilekeh(op): 12:56am On Jan 13, 2015

Re: Pre-independence Yoruba Women by Ilekeh(op): 12:57am On Jan 13, 2015*

OAM4J:
Oh my one and only Ileke Idi..... I have missed you

LOL my 16th husband! grin

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Re: Pre-independence Yoruba Women by Ilekeh(op): 1:02am On Jan 13, 2015

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Re: Pre-independence Yoruba Women by Ilekeh(op): 1:03am On Jan 13, 2015

Yoruba Woman
1880s

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Re: Pre-independence Yoruba Women by Ilekeh(op): 1:05am On Jan 13, 2015

Yoruba women, 1890s
Vintage Nigeria

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Re: Pre-independence Yoruba Women by Ilekeh(op): 1:06am On Jan 13, 2015

Female graduates of University college in Ibadan, Nigeria. 1953

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Re: Pre-independence Yoruba Women by Ilekeh(op): 1:10am On Jan 13, 2015

Three sisters in 1954. Lagos, Nigeria.

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Re: Pre-independence Yoruba Women by Ilekeh(op): 1:11am On Jan 13, 2015

Yoruba people, 1956

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Re: Pre-independence Yoruba Women by Ilekeh(op): 1:19am On Jan 13, 2015

A group of Yoruba women in the festival of ere ibeji images
Photograph by William Fagg

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Re: Pre-independence Yoruba Women by Ilekeh(op): 1:20am On Jan 13, 2015

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Re: Pre-independence Yoruba Women by Ilekeh(op): 1:22am On Jan 13, 2015

Madam Efunroye Tinubu, Iyalode of Egbaland

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Re: Pre-independence Yoruba Women by Ilekeh(op): 1:28am On Jan 13, 2015

A Yoruba woman weaves native cloth on a traditional hand-loom The cloth was woven from locally-grown cotton and dyed by local methods. Before the Second World War, production was steadily declining due to cheap imports from Europe and elsewhere, but wartime restrictions led to a revival in the local product.
South West Nigeria
March 1945.

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Re: Pre-independence Yoruba Women by Ilekeh(op): 1:30am On Jan 13, 2015

…Ibadan, Nigeria. 1960

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