365 Days of Fadaka

nok-ind:

Shrine house priestess Okomfoyaa Anosua, Besease, #Ghana, 1970.

Eliot Elisofon, photographer.

This is what we used to do all over Africa for thousands of years. Particularly in western & Central Sudan (west & Central Africa).

(Source: auntada)

nevermindreal:

Femi Kuti

nigerianculture:

Overlooking Abeokuta by Barefoot In Florida on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
From the top of Olumo Rock, the town of Abeokuta, population around 500,000, stretches to the horizon. In the center is one of the oldest churches in West Africa, built in 1839. The haze is created by smoke from cooking fires and is ever-present.

This photo is used in Wikipedia.

dotroom:

Nike masquerade dance, Enugu state, Nigeria 1993

blackfashion:

By Rachel Isadora

World heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, wearing the Nigerian (Yoruba) brown and white striped Agbada, shouts to the crowd of youngsters who met him on his arrival in Lagos, Nigeria [June 1, 1964]

(Source: revengeofthemuse)