africa I: people and personalities
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Tutsi refugee in a Uganda camp Ref:MKAFM2 | |
Out in force--hard times in Uganda Ref:MKAFM7 | |
Famine in Ethiopia; no simple solutions Ref:MKAFM6 | |
Generations--a Koro Koro elder and his grandson, Kenya Ref:MKAFM4 | |
Kipchoge Keino, Kenya's first great athlete, at a local event Ref:MKAFM273 | |
Dignity defies poverty in a Nairobi street, Kenya Ref:MKAFM5 | |
Fetching firewood in Kenya Ref:MKAFM9 | |
Jewelled beauty, Kenya Ref:MKAFM3 | |
Style, southern Sudan Ref:MKAFC14 | |
Faith in Tunisia (2009): a glimpse towards the mihrab in the prayer hall of the Great Mosque in Kairouan which dates to the 9th century Ref:MKAFTUC457 | |
Style in Zanzibar: renowned musician Bi Kidude, in her nineties, beats a fast rhythm (2002) Ref:MKAFC275 | |
Daphne Sheldrick with her daughter Angela (Nairobi,2003); since the 1960s Daphne has reared more than 40 orphaned elephants Ref:MKAFC295 | |
Out in the midday sun, orphaned elephants are protected by a Keeper, a parasol and the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (Nairobi,2003) Ref:MKAFC296 | |
Totally feminine: toning the skin, Djibouti Ref:MKAFC10 | |
Zambian smile Ref:MKAFC12 | |
Ku-omboka, a flood plain tradition, Zambia Ref:MKAFM8 | |
An Asantahene is acclaimed, Ghana Ref:MKAFC15 | |
Enstoolment ceremony, Ghana Ref:MKAFC16 | |
Emperor Bokassa is crowned (1977) in grandeur and absurdity, Central African Republic Ref:MKAFC17 | |
Unwilling marchers in Bokassa'a coronation parade Ref:MKAFC19 | |
Haile Selassie, his empire fading, Ethiopia Ref:MKAFM20 | |
Haile Selassie, his empire lost (1974), Ethiopia Ref:MKAFM21 | |
Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya president, in University Chancellor robes (1971) Ref:MKAFM22 | |
Idi Amin, Uganda tyrant, in his Chancellor's cap (1974) Ref:MKAFM23 | |
Mercenaries, a menace in a divided Congo (1968) Ref:MKAFM261 | |
Tutsi girl, survivor of conflict Ref:MKAFM1 | |
Surprised and welcoming faces Ref:MKAFM100 | |
A controversial visitor, Robert Kennedy arriving in apartheid-ruled South Africa (1966) Ref:MKAFM262 | |
Willy Brandt, on holiday in Kenya, finds himself named Time's Man of the Year (1971) Ref:MKAFM263 | |
Shirley Temple Black, famous as child filmstar, was a much admired United States ambassador to Ghana (1975) Ref:MKAFM264 | |
Henry Kissinger addressing an UNCTAD conference in Nairobi, Kenya (1976) Ref:MKAFM265 | |
Princess Anne in Kenya among schoolboys watching football (1971) Ref:MKAFM266 | |
Hugh Hefner and 'Playboy' Bunnies meet Schniff, a Nairobi orphanage cheetah, during a Kenya safari (1970) Ref:MKAFM267 | |
Gavin Young, foreign correspondent, and Wilfred Thesiger, explorer, in Nairobi (1979). A cause they shared: the Marsh Arabs of Iraq. Ref:MKAFM268 | |
Michaela Denis in fake fur wrap to promote 'beauty without cruelty' (1968). She and her husband, Armand Denis, launched the era of wildlife documentaries. Ref:MKAFM269 | |
Joy and George Adamson (1970); prominent for their books and ideas on freeing wild animals, they mostly lived and worked apart.
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An aging George Adamson, still working with lions at Kora (l976) Ref:MKAFM27 | |
Betty Leslie Melville, conservationist, popular lecturer and writer, with the Rothschild giraffe, Marlon, at Giraffe Manor, Nairobi (1977) Ref:MKAFM26 | |
Richard Leakey, paleoanthropologist, in 1978 with two of his team's most important finds, a beetle-browed Australopithecus (left) and a 2-million-years old hominid, listed as 1470, which confirmed coexistence theories of the origins of man Ref:MKAFM271 | |
The skull, known as 1470 from its Kenya Museum reference number. Found in pieces by Richard Leakey's team in 1972, the probability that this was Homo habilis was a major step in the search for human origins Ref:MKAFC272 | |
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