Photographs

The African Studies Centre Leiden and its affiliated authors have donated more than 7,000 images from their collections to Wikimedia Commons.

Collections include 'anthropological' photos from Sierra Leone in the 1930s by Professor Sjoerd Hofstra, popular because of the Poro connection, and photographs by Roel Coutinho (Senegal and Guinea-Bissau in the 1970s), containing rare images of the liberation movement in the field and photos of the first president and prime-minister of Guinea-Bissau in informal settings.

All collections:

• Africa - Old maps from the African Studies Centre (Leiden)
• Africa - NSAG collection (students travelling from Cairo to Dakar, 1961-1962)
• Africa - Koopman Collection (library postcards, 1950s-1960s)
• Africa - Various photographs
• Burkina Faso (1970s) - J. T. Broekhuijse Collection
• Burkina Faso, Liberia, Mali, Morocco and Senegal - Fred van der Kraaij Collection (1979)
• Cameroon - W.E.A. van Beek Collection (Kapsiki , 1970s)
• East Africa - Rietveld Collection (1975)
• Guinea-Bissau and Senegal  - Coutinho Collection (1973-1974)
• Mali - W.E.A. van Beek Collection (Dogon, 1979 - 1996 and 2005)
• Algeria, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Mali, Morocco, Mauritania, Namibia, Niger, Tunisia - Van Achterberg Collection (1981-2007)
• Nigeria - Rietveld Collection (1970-1973)
• Rwanda - Rwanda Collection (2021)
• Sierra Leone - Lisk-Carew Brothers Collection (1910s)
• Sierra Leone - Sjoerd Hofstra Collection (1934-1936)
• Somaliland - Van de Bruinhorst Collection (2019)
• South Africa - Rietveld Collection (Robben Island, 2015 )
• Zanzibar - Zanzibar postal stamps (1867-1900)

The ASCL Library also holds a large collection of pictorial works, most of which are available for loan.