Nigeria Gallery

Nigeria country map

2011 edition

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Mr J K Ackaa of Nigeria is a male nurse student at Queen Marys Hospital, Sidcup, Kent

Mr J K Ackaa of Nigeria is a male nurse student at Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, Kent. Since he and a fellow countrymean were enrolled thousands of other applications have been received by the matron from other would-be male nurses, buit they have all been refused owing to lack of vacancies. He is very popular among the child patients - and is seen with 11 year old Elizabeth Harrowden of Sidcup
9th March 1956

© John Topham / TopFoto

Tuareg Girl from the Hoggar Mountains, Algeria

Tuareg Girl from the Hoggar Mountains, Algeria. Taken during the expedition led by Captain Angus Buchanan to the Sahel region of the Sahara in 1922-23. A film shot during the expedition, Crossing the Great Sahara, records the 3500 mile journey, which began in Kano, in Northern Nigeria early in 1922 and ended in Tougourt, Algeria in April 1923. Buchanan had previously led an expedition into the Sahara in 1919-1920. Date: circa 1922

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection