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Nigeria - A Yoruba Grocer

Nigeria - A Yoruba Grocer Date: circa 1920s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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A man rinses soot from his face, Lagos 2006

A man rinses soot from his face at the scene of a gas pipeline explosion near Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos December 26, 2006. Up to 500 people were burned alive on Tuesday when fuel from a vandalised pipeline exploded in Nigeria's largest city, Lagos, emergency workers said. Hundreds of residents of the Abule Egba district went to scoop fuel using plastic containers after thieves punctured the underground pipeline overnight to siphon fuel into a road tanker, locals said. BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye (NIGERIA)

'The Conquest of the Cameroons', First World War, 1914-1916, (c1920). Creator: Unknown

'The Conquest of the Cameroons', First World War, 1914-1916, (c1920). '...map showing approximately how the colony was cleared of the German troops, and the scene of the escape of their main force into Spanish Guinea'. Also shown are: 'A, General [Charles Macpherson] Dobell's main columns, with French columns under Colonel Mayer. B, French southern columns. C, Franco-Belgian columns from French Equatorial Africa and Belgian Congo. D, Franco- British columns under Brigadier-General [Frederick Hugh] Cunliffe. E, Northern column under Lieutenant-Colonel Brisset'. German Cameroon was an African colony of the German Empire from 1884 to 1916. From "The Great World War: A History", Volume V, edited by Frank A Mumby. [The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, c1920]

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