French West Africa

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Photo album of an important event in Ouagadougou shortly before WW2. Shows the Governor of French West Africa, Archbishiop of Haute Volta (Joanny thevenoud) and Naba Koom II, King of Wagadougoo. They attend an exhibition of sorts. 19 photos, no captions. Good architectural interest.

Price: $480.00

Note: Naaba Koom II (1889–1942) was emperor (Mogho Naba) of the Mossi state of Wogodogo in French West Africa from 27 February 1905 to his death on 12 March 1942. He succeeded 11 days upon the death of Naaba Sigiri in 1905. He was succeeded by Naaba Saaga II. At the time of his death, it was rumoured in Free French circles that Naaba Koom's death was the result of a suicide in protest at continued Vichy rule in French West Africa. FA 388This is thought by modern historians to be factually untrue.

Joanny Thévenoud (March 14, 1878 - September 16, 1949) was a French apostolic vicar of the White Fathers, best remembered for his missionary, ecclesiastical and public development work in Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso). Thévenoud was appointed the first vicar apostolic of Ouagadougou on 8 July 1921. In 1942, Thévenoud established the first normal school of teachers of the mission, and five years later, set up the Young Christian Students Association. He died on September 16, 1949, in Ouagadougou, and was buried at the cathedral.

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Livre D’or des Pionniers du Soudan avant, avec et apres Archinard 1879-1894, par Jacques Meniaud. 31 pages. Not shown in Worldcat. KH

Price: $90.00

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129 colonial postcards of different Types of Senegal: Ouolof, Mankaigne, Soussou, Diola, Peulhe, Fanti, Pourougne, Malinke, Ebrie, Mina, Sonrhai, Saussai, Lahobe, Mandingues, Cereres-Nones, Mina, Malinke, Agui, Foutankees, Sonrhai.

Price: $3870.00

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3 piece postcard commemorating the 1931 Paris Colonial Exposition.

Price: $60.00

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27 colonial postcards of various economic activities of the Senegalese.

Price: $810.00

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14 late colonial period postcard of West African women.

Price: $520.00

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3 large format confectionary cards by Chocolat D’Aiguebelle of the 1893 conquest of Dahomey.

Price: $150.00

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Hand written letter written by Abdel Kader Mademba Si, son of Mademba Seye (1852-1918) who was first officer of the Senegalese Trailleurs. Dated 1909, the author references his father and he expresses his pride in French culture.

Price: $200.00

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French press photo of Joseph-Jules Brevie, governor of French West Africa from 1930-1936, with General Gourand (the man who captured Samory) and Cardinal Verdier, inspecting trailleurs.

Price: $80.00

FA 356Homogeneous collection of early 20th century photos of French Guinea. Shown are local villages, village destroyed by Sekou Toure, Kourousa dancers, trailleurs on the Cavalla river, village hut construction, inspecting trailleurs, local hunting, a local female referred to as a “chief porter”, embarking for Fort Binger, raising the French flag in a remote village of the “terabos” people, Chief Yau Kou, village mosque at Kau Kau, clearing land to build Fort Binger, Kofo types, on the Niandon River, Tabetuos types in a Neka village, unusual village mosque, named trailleurs aboard a ship, manioc culture, raising the flag at Fort Binger, entering a fortified village, a convoy in the bush, porters, submission of local chiefs, much more. 111 photos, many captioned. I believe the photographer was a colonial administrator assigned to the construction of Fort Binger (I can find no mention of this Fort online, though it was named after famed explorer Louis-Gustave Binger (see below)).

Price: $1800.00

Note from Wikipedia: Louis-Gustave Binger 14 October 1856 – 10 November 1936) was a French officer and explorer who claimed the Côte d'Ivoire for France. Binger was born at Strasbourg. In 1887 he traveled from Senegal up to the Niger River, arriving at Grand Bassam in 1889. During this expedition he discovered that the Mountains of Kong did not exist. He described this journey in his work Du Niger au golfe de Guinée par le pays de Kong et le Mossi (From the Niger to the Gulf of Guinea though the land of the Kong and the Mossi) (1891). In 1892 he returned to the Guinea Coast to superintend the forming of the boundaries between the British and French colonies. In 1893 Binger was appointed governor of the Côte d'Ivoire, where he remained until 1898. He returned to France that year, to an administrative post in Paris at the French Colonial Ministry. In 1899 the Royal Geographical Society awarded him their Founder's Medal for his exploratory work. He died at L'Isle-Adam, Île-de-France, France and was buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris. The city of Bingerville in the Ivory Coast is named after him.