African Archives -4

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Fela Kuti was (born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti) on 15 October 1938 – 2 August 1997). Also known as Fela Anikulapo Kuti or simply Fela, he was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist, musician, composer, pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre, human rights activist, and political maverick.

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K. 8698. African seamen drawn from four different inland tribes foregather over a mug of tea. (Picture issued: 1945)
Location: Kenya
Date: 1945

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British Army Doctors tend to a wounded soldier of the 81st West African Division at an improvised operating theater in the Kaladan Valley. Soldiers of the 81st West Africa Division came from, primarily, the modern nations of Nigeria, The Gambia, Ghana and Sierra Leone and fought in the Second Arakan Campaign of the larger Burma Campaign against Imperial Japanese forces. Near Apaukwa, Kaladan Valley, Burma (Myanmar). August 1944.

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U.S. Marines, attached to the racially segregated 3rd Supply Battalion, on break from their duty of supplying ammunition to the front lines during the Battle of Saipan, pause for a rest. Pictured are Pfc. Horace Boykin (on bicycle) and (left to right): Cpl. Willis T. Anthony, Pfc. Emmitt Shackleford and Pfc. Eugene Purdy. Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. July 1944.

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Soccer
Location: Uganda, East Africa

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Grande Hotel, Beira.
Location:Beira, Mozambique
Date:c.1955

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Iain Macleod sitting before a Tanganyika Broadcasting Corporation microphone.
Date: March 1961
Location: Tanganyika

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