EditorialBance Island, in the Sierra Leone River. Bance Island, run by the British commericial forms, was one of the major slave trading operations on the Rice Coast of West Africa. Observations upon the Windward Coast of Africa, the religion, character, custom...
EditorialOrishetukeh Faduma, B.D. Native of the Yoruba tribe, West Africa; Educated in Sierra Leone, London and Yale University. Orishatukeh Faduma, teacher and minister, was born in Guyana, South America (formerly British Guiana). He attended London University...
EditorialIllustrated front cover. Charles Andrew Gollmer, his life and missionary labours in West Africa / compiled from his journals and the Church Missionary Society's Publications, by his eldest son ; with a preface by T. Fowell Buxton Esq. ; with photograph...
EditorialMen, women and children from West Africa. The men are carrying guns. Die Nigritier. Eine anthropologisch-ethnologische Monographie, etc. Berlin, Leipzig [printed], 1876, etc. Source: 10006.g.4, plate XL. Language: German.
EditorialWeapons and other articles from South West Africa. The history of mankind / Trans from the second German edited by A. J. Butler. v. 3, 1898. [S.l.] : Macmillan, 1896-1898. Source: 572*3343* vol III, plate before f.101. Language: English.
EditorialMarabout Mandingue. A Marabout (Muslim religious leader and teacher in West Africa.), of the Mandingo people. Esquisses se?ne?galaises, etc. Paris, 1853. Source: 10096.h.9 plate 10.
EditorialNorth and South West Africa shewing the course of the Niger, and principal rivers, from the latest authorities, By W. Hutton. A Voyage to Africa, including a narrative of an embassy to one of the interior Kingdoms in the year 1820, with remarks on the ...
EditorialJames white preaching before King Akitoye. Charles Andrew Gollmer, his life and missionary labours in West Africa ... London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1889. Source: 4888.b.64, page 57.
EditorialWest Africa; Cape Verde Islands. Portolano. Italy; 1468. [Whole chart] Chart of the coast of west Africa, south of Cape Blanco, with the Cape Verde Islands. Probably made for Prospero Camulio de Medicis, Bishop of Caithness Image taken from Portolano ...
EditorialA plan of cape coast castle. Cape Coast Castle is one of about forty "slave castles", or large commercial forts, built on the Gold Coast of West Africa by European traders. Thirty different Drafts of Guinea by William Smith, Surveyor to ye Royal Afric...
EditorialHomme et femme Toucoulaures. Marabout faisant un Grigri. A man and woman of the Toucouleur people of West Africa. A Marabout (Muslim religious leader and teacher in West Africa.). Esquisses se?ne?galaises, etc. Paris, 1853. Source: 10096.h.9 plate 20.
EditorialTitle page of a translation of the epsitle of St. Paul, from New Testament. Yoruba is a language spoken in West Africa mainly in Nigeria. The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans. Translated into Yoruba ... by the Rev. Samuel Crowther. London : C....
EditorialA basket made in three pieces; one open and one closed specimen. On the right, a basket covered with shells from the interior of West Africa- one quarter real size. The history of mankind / Trans from the second German edited by A. J. Butler. v. 3, 189...
EditorialConsulting Ifa. Three African woman having a discussion. Charles Andrew Gollmer, his life and missionary labours in West Africa / compiled from his journals and the Church Missionary Society's Publications, by his eldest son ; with a preface by T. Fowe...
EditorialJelleman of Soolimana. Jelleman of Kooranko. Musicians of West Africa. Travels in the Timannee, Kooranko, and Soolima countries in western Africa / by Alexander Gordon Laing. London : J. Murray, 1825. Source: G.2972 facing page 148.
EditorialFetish customs for the dead, little Popo, West Africa. The Story of Africa and its Explorers. London, 1896-98. Source: 10094.f.3 vol.III, opp.112.
EditorialJellemen of Soolimana. Musicians of West Africa. Travels in the Timannee, Kooranko, and Soolima countries in western Africa / by Alexander Gordon Laing. London : J. Murray, 1825. Source: G.2972 page 369.
EditorialMap of Oceanvs Occidentalis. A map of the Eastern Ocean. The atlantic ocean and the Americas. Terra Incognita. West Africa. . Map of the Ancient World. Lithographed from an atlas to Ptolemy’s Geography ... Rome, 1478]. Strasbourg. Published in 1513. ...
EditorialPierre Savorgnan de Brazza (1852-1905), founder of French Congo in bush clothing, 1886. He was an explorer of Italian nationality, who single-handedly opened up for France entry along the right bank of the Congo River that eventually led to French colo...
Editorial1770, Bonne Map of West Africa, Guinea, the Bight of Benin, Congo, Rigobert Bonne 1727 ? 1794, one of the most important cartographers of the late 18th century.
Editorial1765, Bonne Map of West Africa, the Gulf of Guinea, and Benin, Rigobert Bonne 1727 ? 1794, one of the most important cartographers of the late 18th century.
Editorial1771, Bonne Map of the Guinea Coast of West Africa and the Cape Verde Islands, Rigobert Bonne 1727 ? 1794, one of the most important cartographers of the late 18th century.
EditorialCache-Sexe, 12th century, Mali, Tellem peoples, Fiber, 3 1/4 x 6in. (8.3 x 15.2cm), Basketry-Costumes, This carefully crafted object is part of a rare group of female 'modesty skirts,' which are thought to have been worn low on the hips and held in pla...
EditorialCache-Sexe, 12th century, Mali, Tellem peoples, Fiber, 3 x 7 1/2in. (7.6 x 19.1cm), Basketry-Costumes, This carefully crafted object is part of a rare group of female 'modesty skirts,' which are thought to have been worn low on the hips and held in pla...
EditorialMandinka (Mandingo) man and woman of West Africa. From Mungo Park's Travels in the Interior of Africa. Copperplate engraving by Dell'Acqua handcoloured by Lazaretti from Giovanni Battista Sonzogno?s Collection of the Most Interesting Voyages (Raccolta ...
EditorialCostumes of the Mandingo or Mandinka people, west Africa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Antonio Sasso from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1843.
EditorialThe learned Abbas Gregorius, an Amharic Ethiopian, and Hausa man of west Africa. Handcoloured lithograph from James Cowles Prichard's Natural History of Man, Balliere, London, 1855.
EditorialMacrosphyra longistyla, native to West Africa (Long-styled gardenia, Gardenia longistyla). Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and lithographed by Walter Fitch from Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Curtis's Botanical Magazine," London, 1847.
EditorialNative thatched hut under palm trees in Senegambia (Senegal and Gambia), west Africa. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meiss...
EditorialPierre Savorgnan de Brazza (1852-1905), founder of French Congo in bush clothing, 1886. He was an explorer of Italian nationality, who single-handedly opened up for France entry along the right bank of the Congo River that eventually led to French colo...
EditorialWooden figure of a man with knife, seated in front of a mancala board; portrait of Shamba Boloncongo, 93rd Great Chief of the Bushongo. Mushenge (Mingenza), Kasai; Congo, West Africa. Around 1600. Inv. 1909-12-10-1.
EditorialEXCLUSIVE: ** WARNING: Contains Graphic Content ** This grotesque creature has been dubbed a porkey by islanders in Barbados after it was born resembling a cross between a pig and a monkey