Commons:Collections of the African Studies Centre (Leiden)
African Studies Centre Leiden | |||
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Native name | Stichting Afrika-Studiecentrum | ||
Parent institution | Leiden University | ||
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Established | 1947 | ||
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The African Studies Centre (Leiden, ASC) and its affiliated authors have donated more than 6,000 images from their collections to Wikimedia Commons. Uploaded files are residing in the Category:Images from the African Studies Centre (Leiden) and in specific collection categories within the Category:African Studies Centre (Leiden). A companion descriptive page on the ASC Wikimedia photo project is Wikipedia:GLAM/African Studies Centre Leiden.
- Overview by period with samples
- Overview by country
- Usage of this donation on Wikimedia projects, main namespace (articles) only
- Pageviews of Wikimedia pages containing these images.
The Top 5 of Most-Viewed ASCL Photographs in September 2022
[edit]Images from the African Study Center Leiden appear on various Wikipedia websites, especially on the English and French language Wikipedias. Using a tally how often those pages are clicked in a month time[1] we can tentatively establish a Top 5 of most-viewed images in September 2022, shown here with links to the English Wikipedia articles they appear on, the number of page views and their ASCL photo source collection:
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1. Idi Amin in Monrovia, 1976. Photo by Dutch economist Fred van der Kraaij who lived and taught in Liberia - The Wikipedia article Idi Amin with this photo was clicked 195,682 x in September 2022 - Liberia 1975-1979 (F. van der Kraaij Collection).
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2. Weapons of the liberation movement PAIGC in Guinea-Bissau, 1973. Photo by Dutch medical doctor and later professor Roel Coutinho - article AK-47 - clicked 157,439 x - Guinea-Bissau and Senegal 1973-1974 (Coutinho Collection).
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3. New Nigerian newspaper page 7 January 1970. End of the Nigerian civil war with Biafra, with the military Obasanjo, Jallo, Bissala (Bissalla), and Gowon. Picture taken by Dutch teacher Aart Rietveld - Nigerian Civil War - clicked 120,439 x - East Africa 1975 (Rietveld Collection)
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4. "The Moa River Bridge, Sierra Leone" in the 1910s with a passing train. Photo by Alphonso Lisk-Carew and his assistant, his brother Arthur (together the Lisk-Carew Brothers) - Sierra Leone - clicked 119,193 x - Lisk-Carew Brothers
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5. A tribal linguistic map of Zambia, date unknown - Zambia - clicked 88,422 x - Maps from the African Studies Centre (Leiden)
> Top 5 Photos for previous years at the website of Wikipedia:GLAM
The ASCL photo collections on Wikimedia Commons include:
Overview by period with samples
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East India postage Queen Victoria stamps used in Zanzibar - Four annas green, 1866
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12 stamps from Zanzibar, 1892 - 1894
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India postage Queen Victoria stamp used in Zanzibar - Purple one anna, before 1900
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The French Post Office in Malindi (Road), Zanzibar Stone Town, 19th century
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ASC Library - Cape of Good Hope - Appendix to Votes and Proceedings to Parliament - 1883
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P.J. Idenburg, founder of the African Studies Centre (ASC) Leiden, the Netherlands, 1930s
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Julia Duncan-Cassell, Liberian minister of gender and development, during the Africa Works! Conference in Leiden, 2014
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Conference Africa works! Marina Diboma (Netherlands African Business Council NABC), Dutch secretary of state Lilianne Ploumen and ASC director Ton Dietz, 2014
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Ghanese photographer James Barnor at the ASC, 2016
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"Weaving cotton for making native cloth", 1910s
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Threshing rice, 1910s
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Many hands make light work. Meal time, 1910s
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Making native cloth. Sierra Leone. Umbilical hernia, 1910s
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Moa River bridge, 1910s
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Map of Tanganyika, 1926 or 1936
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Map of Ruanda Urundi, 1929-1938
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Tribal linguistic map of Zambia
Scanned glass plate lantern slides.
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A group of eight posing women and a man, (Panguma) 1936-1938
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A weaver at work with a group of women with children standing by, Panguma 1934
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Tilling the future rice fields, accompanied by a drummer, Panguma 1934
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Drying the rice, Panguma, late 1934
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A drummer looking up, 1935
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A small boy posing in Poro outfit, Panguma 1936
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Close-up of a man climbing a palm tree, 1935
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Musicians, Panguma, 1936
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New Library Johannesburg, South Africa, 1935
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Balme Library, University of Ghana, Legon, 1950s
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Kenneth Onwuka Dike University Library, Ibadan, Nigeria, 1960
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Public Library Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 1960
On an extensive field trip mainly through North Africa a group of Dutch university students visited local students and their new universities and toured many countries. A pictorial donation by three group members, the later medical professor L.A. van Es, the engineer Mr. M.U.U. van Dis and Mr. Crebolder.
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An Egyptian guide, his little son and a Dutch student at the Pyramids of Giza, Egypt, 1961
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A group viewing the Great Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha, Cairo, Egypte, 1961
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A farmer is plowing with two oxen near Cairo, Egypt, 1961
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Ramses II. Small Temple of Hathor and Nefertari, now inundated, Abu Simbel, Egypte 1961
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An Egyptian boatman on the Nile to Buhen, 1961
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The tomb of the Mahdi (Mohamed Ahmed), mosque at Omdurman, Soedan, 1961
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Two local students in conversation with a Dutch student, Omdurman, Sudan, 1961
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Guards in white uniforms with headdress at the Presidential Palace, Khartoum, Sudan, 1961
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A cyclist, Khartoum, Sudan, 1961
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Laughing Dutch students, University of Khartoum, Sudan, 1961
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Girls at an elementary school, Khartoum, Sudan, 1961
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A boy at an elementary school is moving to the rhythm of music, Khartoum, Sudan, 1961
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A grove of palm trees at an irrigation canal of the Gezira Plan, Sudan, 1961
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Nalubaale Hydroelectric Power Station on the White Nile near Kampala, Uganda, 1961
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Young men at a bicycle shop, Kampala, Uganda, 1961
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Outpatient clinic of the Mulago hospital, Kampala, Uganda, 1961
Rietveld Collection, Nigeria, East Africa, Robben Island 1970-1973, 1975, 2015, 196 photos
[edit]Dutch historian Aart Rietveld taught at Toro Teachers College in Toro, North Nigeria, and travelled widely in Africa.
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Teachers in training awiat the inspection of their huts, Toro Teachers College.
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Polygamy. The driver of Toro Teachers College marries his third wife.
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Dodo dancers dressed as evil spirits of ancestors with their drummer have to wait for their turn at the Jos Ceremony, Jos.
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The ceremonial ruler of Bauchi in his procession at the islamic Eid al-Fitr festivities, Bauchi.
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Pan African Games Lagos January 7-18, 1973. A female javelin thrower in the stadium.
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Kainji Dam in the River Niger. White horned zebus in front of the openings of the dam.
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Maduni's club, a nightclub in Nairobi
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Swans on a lake, Zambia/Zimbabwe.
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A smiling driver with his four donkeys on an brand new asphalt road, Zambia/Zimbabwe.
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A teacher is instructing her boys to add numbers, Zambia/Zimbabwe.
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A man in front of his landscape, Zambia/Zimbabwe.
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A young fisherman is turning his boat with a pole, Zambia/Zimbabwe.
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Laminar and turbulent flow in the Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe/Zambia, 1975
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Robbeneiland with Tafelberg
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Church
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A prison mate of Mandela guides the visitors
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Departure from the port of Cape Town.
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Blackfoot penguin (Spheniscus demersus) near trees on Robben Island
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Map of Robben Island of 1784
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Cell viewed through the gantry gate
Dutch economist Fred van der Kraaij lived and worked in Liberia for many years as, e.g., a university lecturer. He donated an extensive collection of photographs of Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Morocco, Niger, Senegal and Togo.
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Fruit vendors, Monrovia, 1975
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Open pit mining for iron ore, Yekepa 1976
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Conveyor belt carrying iron ore, Yekepa 1976
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Train with iron ore, Yekepa 1976
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Dam for the generation of electricity, Firestone factory, Harbel 1976
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A rubber tapper at the Firestone rubber plantation, Harbel 1976
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Firestone latex factory, Harbel 1976
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Rubber factory, Harbel 1976
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Illuminated houses of the workers at the Firestone rubber factory, Harbel 1976
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Storage of latex sheets, Harbel 1976
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A woman winnowing paddy and a man with a mortar, Agrimeco, Montserrado county, 1976
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The hanging of the Harper Seven for cannibalism, Liberia - 16 February 1979
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The hanging of the Harper Seven, Liberia - 16 February 1979
In 2016 medical professor Roel Coutinho (on Dutch wikipedia) MD donated 752 photographs and slides made by him in the course of his medical work in Guinea-Bissau and Senegal in 1973 and 1974, during the final year of the war of independence waged by the PAIGC (Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde) resistance movement against Portugal.
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Canoeing across the river, 1973
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Learning how to shoot, 1973
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Chico Mendes' (later prime minister of Guinea-Bissau) marriage in Ziguinchor, Senegal, 1973
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School in Sara, Guinea-Bissau, 1974
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School for adults in Guinea-Bissau, 1974
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Infirmary in Sara, Guinea-Bissau - Lung check up by Cuban doctor Antonio, 1974
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Soldier with rocket-propelled grenade, Mantem, Guinea-Bissau, 1974
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Open air infirmary, Sara, Guinea-Bissau, 1974
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Military instruction cartoons showing PAIGC soldiers, Farim, Guinea-Bissau, 1974
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Girl in the liberated areas of Guinea-Bissau, 1974
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PAIGC boarding school band, Ziguinchor "Instituto Amizade École Teranga", 1973
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Mother and son in Campada, Guinea-Bissau, 1973
Van Beek Collection, Cameroon and Mali 1996-2005, 231 files
[edit]Illustrations from the book Thuis in Afrika - At Home in Africa, about the Dogon people, Mali, 1972 - 2006, 99 photos
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The dancing thieves' society is playing a gang of Muslim Touareg slave hunters, Tireli, Mali, 1994
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Zra Kangacè and Tizhè Zra Damba are drinking millet beer, Mogodé, North Cameroon, 1998
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Haman Tizhe, Mogodé's "doctor", Mogodé, 2003
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The funeral feast for Balayo, Tireli, 2005
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Apomi's wives are enacting their husband's journeys, Tireli, 2008
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Balugo showing his meat at the market, Tireli, 1980
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A female granary, Yugo 1981
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Young man just returned from Abidjan, with his radio, Tireli, 1985
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Women climb the rock slope with pots of beer on the head on the path to the market in Sangha, Tireli, 1990
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Various condiments at Sangha market, 1992
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The women during the year festival in Mogode
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A fulbeized algaita player
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Funeral: the corpse is dressed and carried by a blacksmith
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A crab divination pot
Social anthropologist Angeline van Achterberg travelled widely mainly in Northwest Africa for her work, for instance with women's organisations, and authored various books. Algeria, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Mauritania, Mali, Morocco, Namibia, Niger and Tunesia
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The bus takes a pause during the ride to Ougadougou, Yako, Burkina Faso, 1996
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A pancake seller on the street, Gorom-Gorom, Burkina Faso 1996.
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"Ensemble stoppons le SIDA Fidelité Abstinence Préservatif". Information to combat AIDS along the road from Bamako to Ségou, Mali, 1996
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A Touareg griot (singer) with his family and his instrument, the three-stringed kora, Tin Aicha, Timbuctu, Mali, 1996
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A griot in the open air among his audience, UNHCR refugee camp Mberra, Mauritania, 1996
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Men at a market for beans and flour, Léré, Timbuctu, Mali, 1996
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The AtlanticOcean viewed from Hotel l'Océan, Kribi, Cameroun 1997
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Working class neighborhood of Yaoundé, Kameroen 1997
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Pupils at the boarding school of the Bagyéli people, Bipindi, Cameroun, 1997
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Members of the self-help organisation Mboscuda, Bamenda, Cameroun 1997
Gerard van de Bruinhorst, an arabist and Afrikanist at the Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden, documented his visit to the Hargeysa 12th International Book Fair, 20-25 July 2019, in Somaliland.
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A food stall run by women, Hargeisa 2019
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Nasiim Mohomed Ali Aar, writer of the novel Between Love, Past and Destiny
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The lights of Hargeysa at night, showing the red Central Market, Hargeisa 2019
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A panel discussion at the Hargeysa 12th International Book Fair
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Hargeisa War Cemetery, 2019
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Animal story and the mathematical geometric series of 0.5, Hargeysa Cultural Centre
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A nest of weaver birds hanging from a tree, Hargeisa
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Rock paintings of Laas Geel with a visiting group from the 12th Hargeisa Book Fair
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A red and white rock painting of a human figure in the caves of Laas Geel
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A group of men sitting in front of the University Bookshop, women in burqa pass, video, Hargeisa 2019
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Cattle livestock market, Hargeisa 2019
Overview by country
[edit]Incomplete, work in progress.
Country | Subjects | Period | Photo Collection | Number of images |
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Africa generic | ||||
Algeria, Botswana, Cameroon, Morocco, Mauritania, Mali, Namibia, Tunesia |
1996-1997 | Van Achterberg Collection | 1916 | |
Algeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa | African library postcards | 1935-1960 | Koopman Collection | 12 |
Burkina Faso, Liberia, Mali, Morocco and Senegal | 1972-1986 | Fred van der Kraaij Collection | 1400 | |
Egypt, Sudan, Chad, Uganda, Nigeria, Cameroon, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Mali, Senegal |
Archeology, landscape, people, universities |
1961-1962 | NSAG Dutch students photo collection, North Africa | 1462 |
Guinea-Bissau and Senegal | PAIGC liberation movement | 1973-1974 | Coutinho Collection | 760 |
Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia/Zimbabwe | 1970-1973, 1975, 2015 | Rietveld Collection | 246 | |
Ruanda, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Zambia | Old maps | 1920-1940 | Old maps at the African Studies Centre (Leiden) | 7 |
Ghana, Liberia, the Netherlands | Various | 1788-2016, visitors at the ASC, Africanists, documents |
Various photographs | 41 |
By country | ||||
Algeria | 1996-1997 | Van Achterberg Collection | ||
Benin | 1961-1962 | NSAG Dutch students photo collection | ||
Botswana | 1996-1997 | Van Achterberg Collection | ||
Burkina Faso | 1972-1986 | Fred van der Kraaij Collection | ||
1996-1997 | Van Achterberg Collection | |||
Cameroon | 1961-1962 | NSAG Dutch students photo collection | ||
Kapsiki | 1990s | W.E.A. van Beek Collection (Kapsiki) | 12 | |
1996-1997 | Van Achterberg Collection | |||
Chad | 1961-1962 | NSAG Dutch students photo collection | ||
Egypt | 1961-1962 | NSAG Dutch students photo collection | ||
Ghana | 1961-1962 | NSAG Dutch students photo collection | ||
Guinea-Bissau | PAIGC liberation movement | 1973-1974 | Coutinho Collection | |
Ivory Coast | 1961-1962 | NSAG Dutch students photo collection | ||
Kenya | 1975 | Rietveld Collection (East Africa) | ||
Liberia | 1972-1986 | Fred van der Kraaij Collection | ||
Mali | 1961-1962 | NSAG Dutch students photo collection | ||
1972-1986 | Fred van der Kraaij Collection | |||
Dogon | 1979-1996, 2005 | W.E.A. van Beek Collection (Dogon) | 120 | |
1996-1997 | Van Achterberg Collection | |||
Mauritania | 1996-1997 | Van Achterberg Collection | ||
Morocco | 1972-1986 | Fred van der Kraaij Collection | ||
1996-1997 | Van Achterberg Collection | |||
Namibia | 1996-1997 | Van Achterberg Collection | ||
Niger | 1996-1997 | Van Achterberg Collection | ||
Nigeria | 1970-1973 | Rietveld Collection (Nigeria) | 90 | |
1961-1962 | NSAG Dutch students photo collection | |||
Senegal | 1961-1962 | NSAG Dutch students photo collection | ||
1972-1986 | Fred van der Kraaij Collection | |||
PAIGC liberation movement | 1973-1974 | Coutinho Collection | ||
Sierra Leone | 1910s | Lisk-Carew Brothers Collection | 18 | |
1934-1936 | Hofstra Collection | 110 | ||
Somaliland | Hargeisa, cave paintings | 2019 | Van de Bruinhorst Collection | 100 |
South Africa | Robben Island | 2015 | Rietveld Collection (Robben Island) | 57 |
Sudan | 1961-1962 | NSAG Dutch students photo collection | ||
Togo | 1961-1962 | NSAG Dutch students photo collection | ||
Tunisia | 1996-1997 | Van Achterberg Collection | ||
Tanzania | Zanzibar postal stamps | 1866-1900 | Zanzibar postal stamps | 20 |
Uganda | 1961-1962 | NSAG Dutch students photo collection | ||
Zambia/Zimbabwe | 1975 | Rietveld Collection (East Africa) |
- ↑ NB. In this count, as far as is known, the number of visitors on the Internet leaving a web page within a few seconds (bounce, a normal phenomenon on the internet), is not (yet) deducted, so the numbers mentioned are (over) estimates and only relatively indicative.