Ohafia women with long braids fashionable in Ohafia at the time. Photographed by Rev. William T. Weir. From The Women's Missionary Maga...

"Prince Tshúkuma [Chukwuma]" of Abö, illustration from an 1854 voyage by William Baikie. Internet Archive. [At Abö] we learnt t...

People on the island of Jamaica. USC Digital Library. March 22, 1816. A European's account of a thwarted African uprising in Jamaica. ...

Gịnị mè ndị Ọka jì à sọ ènwè? Enwe Imoka, the mona, Porto-Novo, Benin. Photo: Okouneva Olga via Wikimedia Commons. Background Okoli ...

Edward Wilmot Blyden, pictured c. 1851-1860, daguerreotype of a young Edward Wilmot Blyden by Rufus Anson. Library of Congress. Edward Wil...

Photo: King Jaja of Opobo, The New York Public Library. The Western-style school established in 1870s Opobo by King Jaja and other Africa...

An unidentified group portrait taken by a Royal Niger Company employee c. 1886 - 1895. Based on other photos, these could be people from t...

"Water play Bonny For Oko Jumbo" – Jonathan Adagogo Green (Ibani photographer). 1895-1905. British Museum. Bonny was a powerfu...

"Assay Chief & wife." P A Mc C. British Museum. Ase is an Ndị Osimili settlement on the Ase River which connects to the Niger...

Plain woven raffia cloth (mkpuru?) taken from the Igbo ( 'Eboe' ) country by William Baikie before 1856. British Museum. The first ...

Image: 'Fishery in the Lower Niger' c. 1890 engraving from the travels of the officer of the French Foreign Legion, Antoine Mattei....

"A chief of Onicha [Onitsha] wearing a schako [hat] of the Royal Guard of England in which he has fixed bird feathers." Via the ...

What is likely an Igbo family from Onicha (no known documentation left), photographed by William Henry Crosse, part of the Royal Niger Com...

Blacksmiths "from the Onitsha area" according to G. I. Jones, photographed by William Henry Crosse, part of the Royal Niger Compa...

Two women, possibly from Asaba or Önïcha (Onitsha), unidentified, photographed by William Henry Crosse, part of the Royal Niger Company, 18...

This picture taken c. 1889, possibly by G. F. Packer credited with other photos from the Niger and Önïcha (Onitsha) (and of Önïcha trading ...

Two men photographed near the Niger River by William Henry Crosse, part of the Royal Niger Company, 1886 - 1895. MAA Cambridge.

An illustration of King Oputa of "Ogbekin", an Igbo settlement noted to be near the Oshimiri (Niger River) from the book Niger e...

Internal trading, that is, trading among Africans, may also have brought about the distribution of [textiles]. [...] Photo: Akwete (top)...

Creole Boy with a Moth , 1835, by Julien Hudson (American, 1811–1844); oil on canvas; 29 x 23 inches. ‘Red Bone’, referring to an ethnic...