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Yoruba women activists strike a pose by Sara Panata (2016)
1. Kudeti Girls' School in Ibadan, first half of the 1920s.
Mrs Ogunlesi's (third from left to right) Photo Collection
https://journals.openedition.org/genrehistoire/2585
Yoruba women activists strike a pose by Sara Panata (2016)
1. Kudeti Girls' School in Ibadan, first half of the 1920s.
Mrs Ogunlesi's (third from left to right) Photo Collection
https://journals.openedition.org/genrehistoire/2585
2. National Council for Women’s Society (NCWS), April 10, 1960.
Mrs Ogunlesi from WIS in the center, Alhaja Otolorin Akande, seated third in the front row, Mama Humuani Alaga, seated 4th in the front row, Mrs F. Pearse, Lady Abayomi and Lady Ademola seated 1st, second and 5th.
Mrs Ogunlesi from WIS in the center, Alhaja Otolorin Akande, seated third in the front row, Mama Humuani Alaga, seated 4th in the front row, Mrs F. Pearse, Lady Abayomi and Lady Ademola seated 1st, second and 5th.
3. Yoruba women activists strike a pose by Sara Panata (2016)
International Women's Society (IWS) women after a meeting, late 1950s.
Mama Humani Alaga photo collection , Lagos
https://journals.openedition.org/genrehistoire/2585?lang=en
International Women's Society (IWS) women after a meeting, late 1950s.
Mama Humani Alaga photo collection , Lagos
https://journals.openedition.org/genrehistoire/2585?lang=en
A Yoruba Grocer, Lagos 1939.
Publisher: CMS Bookshop.
Yoruba women
Publisher: CMS Bookshop.
Yoruba women
Lola Falana (b. September 11th, 1942) American singer of Yoruba descent.
A group portrait of Yoruba women in traditional clothes a "Adire". Late 1890s.
“Yoruba Girl” by Michael Crowder
1950s
Source: Joliba Heritage Culture
1950s
Source: Joliba Heritage Culture
Yoruba Women - 1951
© Lorenzo Dow Turner, Smithsonian Institution
© Lorenzo Dow Turner, Smithsonian Institution
Yoruba Woman 1949
© The University of Birmingham
© The University of Birmingham
Yoruba woman with umbrella, Meko 1970 - Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Nigerian Activist Funmi Kuti shakes Abubakar Tafawa Balewa.
Mina Igeichà, Rio de Janeiro, 1865
Photographer: Augusto Stahl
wiki commons via the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.
Photographer: Augusto Stahl
wiki commons via the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.
Pupils take milk break at Queen's College in #Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria, a state secondary school for girls. (June 1959).
Photo: by Keystone Features
Photo: by Keystone Features
Women undergraduates dancing in Nigeria costumes (Original Caption) 1950s
Second from left is Mrs. Olusolape Ifaturoti (née Akinkugbe).
#Yoruba
Source: K. Mellanby, The Birth of Nigeria's University
Second from left is Mrs. Olusolape Ifaturoti (née Akinkugbe).
#Yoruba
Source: K. Mellanby, The Birth of Nigeria's University
Mrs. Idiagbon's family, Ijebu Ode - 1950s
Justine Cordwell Collection, Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies of Northwestern University
Justine Cordwell Collection, Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies of Northwestern University
Student Nurses of The Preliminary Training Centre, Lagos 1953
Source: Private Photo Library “Eko Adele”
Source: Private Photo Library “Eko Adele”
‘Chemistry Class in Progress at Our Lady of Apostles Secondary School Ijebu-Ode’, Early 1960s
Source: Missionary Sisters of Our lady of Apostles website
Source: Missionary Sisters of Our lady of Apostles website
The Missionary Sisters of Our lady of Apostles were the first group of Religious women in Nigeria, arriving back in 1877. Almost 80 years later, in 1954, Our Lady of Apostles school in Ijebu-Ode was built and established by the Sisters.
