Photographs

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Post-Biafra, Igbo children at an open-air school, 1974. Photo: Bruno Barbey.

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Photo: Chinua Achebe shot by Eliot Elisofon in Enugu months after the release of Things Fall Apart (1958), 1959. Smithsonian.

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Igbo student at domestic sewing lessons, taken by Drs. G.W. (Gerrit Willem) Grootenhuis, 1967.

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A Y-shaped currency piece known as àpá in Igbo, or the ‘Ogoja penny’, it replaced an earlier hoe-shaped currency in the Cross River Igbo area (around Arochukwu) known as ányú. Taken in 1908. British Museum

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This picture taken c. 1889, possibly by G. F. Packer credited with other photos from the Niger and Onitsha (and of Onitsha trading women), is annotated as ‘Trader from Timbuctou’ on the left and ‘Rich Trading Woman’ on the right.

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“Ifogu masquerade depicting the band seated on the ground and two masqueraders wearing Mba masks in the background. The band members are playing slit wooden slit drums and some are holding clappers.” G. I. Jones, 1930s.

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Alvan Ikoku’s portrait graced as the face of Nigeria 10 Naira note.

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Alvan Ikoku official portrait 1950s.

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Alvan Ikoku Federal University of Education, Owerri. Photo by Emaxzworld.

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The Aba women protest 1929-1930.

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The Aba women protest 1929-1930.

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“Iva Mine, Ekulu, Enugu.”

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A mould artifact in Enugu in reference to the Ekulu coal mine massacre.

Reference OZ-M-3099 · No licence recorded · reuse not granted

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Workers at Ekulu coal mine in 1959, near Enugu, Nigeria.

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“The Ekulu coal mine is one of five currently being operated by the statutory Nigerian Coal Corporation. Nigeria is the only country in Equatorial West Africa at present producing coal.” Eliot Elisofon, 1959. Smithsonian Institute.

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A Bountiful harvest today by a farmer in Ngor Okpala, Imo State. Photo: We Are Igbos

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Onions Harvested from Igbo Land

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The rainy season is very important to the Igbo because it is crucial for their farming. Photo: Alfred Marshall

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Igbo Knowledge of Stars and Seasons

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Ibini okpabe shrine in front of the Nsi omomo shrine, in Ezi Akputa compound, Mgbom village, Afikpo Village-Group, Nigeria.

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HRM Obi Okafor Ogoh Obi of UkwuNzu

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