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African Studies Centre Leiden
Native name Stichting Afrika-Studiecentrum
Parent institution Leiden University Edit this at Wikidata
Location Leiden
Coordinates 52° 10′ 11″ N, 4° 28′ 37″ E Link to OpenStreetMap Link to Google Maps Edit this at Wikidata
Established 1947
Web page www.ascleiden.nl Edit this at Wikidata
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The African Studies Centre (Leiden, ASC) and its affiliated authors have donated more than 4,000 images from their collections to Wikimedia Commons. Uploaded files are residing in the Category:Images from the African Studies Centre (Leiden) and in specific collection categories within the Category:African Studies Centre (Leiden).

Frequently viewed photographs[edit]

Images from the Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden are used on various pages of Wikimedia websites. Statistics how often these pages were consulted, show that in September 2019 the threshold of two million views a month was crossed, for the first time since the start of this image library in 2014. Especially on the English language Wikipedia (and to a lesser extent on the French language Wikipedia) images originating from the ASC were frequently viewed. A top five of those photographs with the article that carries them, the number of page views and the ASC collection in which they reside:

  • 1. Dutch medical doctor Roel Coutinho photographed these Russian weapons of the liberation movement PAIGC in Guinea-Bissau, 1973 - article AK-47 - viewed 132,411 times in September 2019 - Guinea-Bissau and Senegal 1973-1974 (Coutinho Collection).

  • 2. Dutch history teacher Aart Rietveld took this picture of the Jains Hindu tempel in Mombasa, Kenya, 1975 - article Jainism - viewed 115.291 x - East Africa 1975 (Rietveld Collection)

  • 3. Aart Rietveld again, now capturing ladies harvesting coffee beans in Zambia or Zimbabwe, 1975 - article Coffee - viewed 97,025 x - East Africa 1975 (Rietveld Collection)

  • 4. Dutch anthropologist Wouter van Beek is admonished by female beer sellers, that he should buy their beer in the first place and not only photograph them, Tireli market, Mali 1989 - article Marketing - viewed 94,264 x - Dogon (W.E.A. van Beek Collection)

  • 5. Wouter van Beek met eleven boys clothed in white after their circumcision, at the market of Tireli, Mali 1990 - article Circumcision - viewed 81,077 x in September 2019 - Dogon (W.E.A. van Beek Collection)

Overview by period with samples[edit]

Zanzibar postal stamps 1866-1900, 20 files[edit]

  • East India postage Queen Victoria stamps used in Zanzibar - Four annas green, 1866

  • 12 stamps from Zanzibar, 1892 - 1894

  • India postage Queen Victoria stamp used in Zanzibar - Purple one anna, before 1900

  • The French Post Office in Malindi (Road), Zanzibar Stone Town, 19th century

Various photographs 1883-2016, 41 files[edit]

  • ASC Library - Cape of Good Hope - Appendix to Votes and Proceedings to Parliament - 1883

  • P.J. Idenburg, founder of the African Studies Centre (ASC) Leiden, the Netherlands, 1930s

  • Julia Duncan-Cassell, Liberian minister of gender and development, during the Africa Works! Conference in Leiden, 2014

  • Conference Africa works! Marina Diboma (Netherlands African Business Council NABC), Dutch secretary of state Lilianne Ploumen and ASC director Ton Dietz, 2014

  • Ghanese photographer James Barnor at the ASC, 2016

Lisk-Carew Brothers Collection, Sierra Leone 1910s, 18 files[edit]

  • "Weaving cotton for making native cloth", 1910s

  • Threshing rice, 1910s

  • Many hands make light work. Meal time, 1910s

  • Making native cloth. Sierra Leone. Umbilical hernia, 1910s

  • Moa River bridge, 1910s

Old maps at the African Studies Centre (Leiden) 1920-1940, 7 files[edit]

  • Map of Tanganyika, 1926 or 1936

  • Map of Ruanda Urundi, 1929-1938

  • Tribal linguistic map of Zambia

Hofstra Collection, Sierra Leone 1934-1936, 110 files[edit]

  • Tilling the future rice fields, accompanied by a drummer, Panguma 1934

  • Drying the rice, Panguma, late 1934

  • Drummer looking up, 1935

  • Close-up of a man climbing a palm tree, 1935

  • Musicians, Panguma, 1936

Koopman Collection, African library postcards 1935-1960, 12 files[edit]

  • New Library Johannesburg, South Africa, 1935

  • Balme Library, University of Ghana, Legon, 1950s

  • Kenneth Onwuka Dike University Library, Ibadan, Nigeria, 1960

  • Public Library Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 1960

NSAG Dutch students photo collection, North Africa 1961-1962, 1080 files and growing[edit]

On an extensive field trip mainly through North Africa a group of Dutch university students visited local students and their new universities and toured many countries. A pictorial donation by three group members, the later medical professor L.A. van Es, the engineer Mr. M.U.U. van Dis and Mr. Crebolder. Work in progress.

  • An Egyptian guide, his little son and a Dutch student at the Pyramids of Giza, Egypt, 1961

  • A group viewing the Great Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pash, Cairo, Egypte, 1961

  • A farmer is plowing with two oxen near Cairo, Egypt, 1961

  • Ramses II. Small Temple of Hathor and Nefertari, now inundated, Abu Simbel, Egypte 1961

  • An Egyptian boatman on the Nile to Buhen, 1961

  • The tomb of the Mahdi (Mohamed Ahmed), mosque at Omdurman, Soedan, 1961

  • Two local students in conversation with a Dutch student, Omdurman, Sudan, 1961

  • Guards in white uniforms with headdress at the Presidential Palace, Khartoum, Sudan, 1961

  • A cyclist, Khartoum, Sudan, 1961

  • Laughing Dutch students, University of Khartoum, Sudan, 1961

  • Girls at an elementary school, Khartoum, Sudan, 1961

  • A boy at an elementary school is moving to the rhythm of music, Khartoum, Sudan, 1961

  • A grove of palm trees at an irrigation canal of the Gezira Plan, Sudan, 1961

  • Nalubaale Hydroelectric Power Station on the White Nile near Kampala, Uganda, 1961

  • Young men at a bicycle shop, Kampala, Uganda, 1961

  • Outpatient clinic of the Mulago hospital, Kampala, Uganda, 1961

Rietveld Collection[edit]

Dutch historian Aart Rietveld taught at Toro Teachers College in Toro, North Nigeria, and travelled widely in Africa.

Nigeria 1970-1973, 90 files[edit]

  • Teachers in training awiat the inspection of their huts, Toro Teachers College.

  • Polygamy. The driver of Toro Teachers College marries his third wife.

  • Dodo dancers dressed as evil spirits of ancestors with their drummer have to wait for their turn at the Jos Ceremony, Jos.

  • The ceremonial ruler of Bauchi in his procession at the islamic Eid al-Fitr festivities, Bauchi.

  • Pan African Games Lagos January 7-18, 1973. A female javelin thrower in the stadium.

  • Kainji Dam in the River Niger. White horned zebus in front of the openings of the dam.

East-Africa 1975, 49 files[edit]

  • Maduni's club, a nightclub in Nairobi

  • Swans on a lake, Zambia/Zimbabwe.

  • A smiling driver with his four donkeys on an brand new asphalt road, Zambia/Zimbabwe.

  • A teacher is instructing her boys to add numbers, Zambia/Zimbabwe.

  • A man in front of his landscape, Zambia/Zimbabwe.

  • A young fisherman is turning his boat with a pole, Zambia/Zimbabwe.

  • Laminar and turbulent flow in the Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe/Zambia, 1975

Robben Island 2015, 57 files[edit]

  • Robbeneiland with Tafelberg

  • Church

  • A prison mate of Mandela guides the visitors

  • Departure from the port of Cape Town.

  • Blackfoot penguin (Spheniscus demersus) near trees on Robben Island

  • Map of Robben Island of 1784

  • Cell viewed through the gantry gate

Fred van der Kraaij Collection, Liberia and neighbouring countries 1972-1986, 745 files[edit]

Dutch economist Fred van der Kraaij lived and worked in Liberia for many years as, e.g., a university lecturer.

Liberia 1975-1976, 37 files[edit]

  • Fruit vendors, Monrovia, 1975

  • Open pit mining for iron ore, Yekepa 1976

  • Conveyor belt carrying iron ore, Yekepa 1976

  • Train with iron ore, Yekepa 1976

  • Dam for the generation of electricity, Firestone factory, Harbel 1976

  • A rubber tapper at the Firestone rubber plantation, Harbel 1976

  • Firestone latex factory, Harbel 1976

  • Rubber factory, Harbel 1976

  • Illuminated houses of the workers at the Firestone rubber factory, Harbel 1976

  • Storage of latex sheets, Harbel 1976

  • A woman winnowing paddy and a man with a mortar, Agrimeco, Montserrado county, 1976

Liberia 1979, 4 files[edit]

  • The hanging of the Harper Seven for cannibalism, Liberia - 16 February 1979

  • The hanging of the Harper Seven, Liberia - 16 February 1979

Coutinho Collection, Guinea-Bissau and Senegal 1973-1974, 760 files[edit]

In 2016 medical professor Roel Coutinho (on Dutch wikipedia) MD donated 752 photographs and slides made by him in the course of his medical work in Guinea-Bissau and Senegal in 1973 and 1974, during the final year of the war of independence waged by the PAIGC (Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde) resistance movement against Portugal.

  • Canoeing across the river, 1973

  • Learning how to shoot, 1973

  • Chico Mendes' (later prime minister of Guinea-Bissau) marriage in Ziguinchor, Senegal, 1973

  • School in Sara, Guinea-Bissau, 1974

  • School for adults in Guinea-Bissau, 1974

  • Infirmary in Sara, Guinea-Bissau - Lung check up by Cuban doctor Antonio, 1974

  • Soldier with rocket-propelled grenade, Mantem, Guinea-Bissau, 1974

  • Open air infirmary, Sara, Guinea-Bissau, 1974

  • Military instruction cartoons showing PAIGC soldiers, Farim, Guinea-Bissau, 1974

  • Girl in the liberated areas of Guinea-Bissau, 1974

  • PAIGC boarding school band, Ziguinchor "Instituto Amizade École Teranga", 1973

  • Mother and son in Campada, Guinea-Bissau, 1973

Van Beek Collection[edit]

Dogon, Mali, 1979 - 1996, 2005, 120 files[edit]

  • Balugo showing his meat at the market, Tireli, 1980

  • A female granary, Yugo 1981

  • Young man just returned from Abidjan, with his radio, Tireli, 1985

  • Women climb the rock slope with pots of beer on the head on the path to the market in Sangha, Tireli, 1990

  • Various condiments at Sangha market, 1992

Kapsiki, Cameroon, 1990s, 12 files[edit]

  • The women during the year festival in Mogode

  • A fulbeized algaita player

  • Funeral: the corpse is dressed and carried by a blacksmith

  • A crab divination pot

Van Achterberg Collection, Morocco, Mauritania, Tunesia, Mali and Cameroun 1996-1997, 856 files[edit]

Social anthropologist Angeline van Achterberg travelled widely in Northwest Africa for her work, for instance with women's organisations, and authored various books.

  • The bus takes a pause during the ride to Ougadougou, Yako, Burkina Faso, 1996

  • A pancake seller on the street, Gorom-Gorom, Burkina Faso 1996.

  • "Ensemble stoppons le SIDA Fidelité Abstinence Préservatif". Information to combat AIDS along the road from Bamako to Ségou, Mali, 1996

  • A Touareg griot (singer) with his family and his instrument, the three-stringed kora, Tin Aicha, Timbuctu, Mali, 1996

  • A griot in the open air among his audience, UNHCR refugee camp Mberra, Mauritania, 1996

  • Men at a market for beans and flour, Léré, Timbuctu, Mali, 1996

  • The AtlanticOcean viewed from Hotel l'Océan, Kribi, Cameroun 1997

  • Working class neighborhood of Yaoundé, Kameroen 1997

  • Pupils at the boarding school of the Bagyéli people, Bipindi, Cameroun, 1997

  • Members of the self-help organisation Mboscuda, Bamenda, Cameroun 1997

Van de Bruinhorst Collection, Somaliland 2019, 100 files[edit]

Gerard van de Bruinhorst, an arabist and Afrikanist at the Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden, documented his visit to the Hargeysa 12th International Book Fair, 20-25 July 2019, in Somaliland.

  • A food stall run by women, Hargeisa 2019

  • Nasiim Mohomed Ali Aar, writer of the novel Between Love, Past and Destiny

  • The lights of Hargeysa at night, showing the red Central Market, Hargeisa 2019

  • A panel discussion at the Hargeysa 12th International Book Fair

  • Hargeisa War Cemetery, 2019

  • Animal story and the mathematical geometric series of 0.5, Hargeysa Cultural Centre

  • A nest of weaver birds hanging from a tree, Hargeisa

  • Rock paintings of Laas Geel with a visiting group from the 12th Hargeisa Book Fair

  • A red and white rock painting of a human figure in the caves of Laas Geel

  • A group of men sitting in front of the University Bookshop, women in burqa pass, video, Hargeisa 2019

  • Cattle livestock market, Hargeisa 2019

Overview by country[edit]

Incomplete, work in progress.

Country Subjects Period Photo Collection Number of images
Africa generic
Algeria, Botswana, Cameroon, Morocco,
Mauritania, Mali, Namibia, Tunesia		 1996-1997 Van Achterberg Collection 856
Algeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa African library postcards 1935-1960 Koopman Collection 12
Burkina Faso, Liberia, Mali, Morocco and Senegal 1972-1986 Fred van der Kraaij Collection 745
Egypt, Sudan, Chad, Uganda, Nigeria, Cameroon,
Benin, Togo, Ghana, Mali, Senegal		 Archeology, landscape,
people, universities		 1961-1962 NSAG Dutch students photo collection, North Africa 1080
Guinea-Bissau and Senegal PAIGC liberation movement 1973-1974 Coutinho Collection 760
Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia/Zimbabwe 1970-1973, 1975, 2015 Rietveld Collection 246
Ruanda, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Zambia Old maps 1920-1940 Old maps at the African Studies Centre (Leiden) 7
Ghana, Liberia, the Netherlands Various 1788-2016,
visitors at the ASC,
Africanists, documents		 Various photographs 41
By country
Algeria 1996-1997 Van Achterberg Collection
Benin 1961-1962 NSAG Dutch students photo collection
Botswana 1996-1997 Van Achterberg Collection
Burkina Faso 1972-1986 Fred van der Kraaij Collection
1996-1997 Van Achterberg Collection
Cameroon 1961-1962 NSAG Dutch students photo collection
Kapsiki 1990s W.E.A. van Beek Collection (Kapsiki) 12
1996-1997 Van Achterberg Collection
Chad 1961-1962 NSAG Dutch students photo collection
Egypt 1961-1962 NSAG Dutch students photo collection
Ghana 1961-1962 NSAG Dutch students photo collection
Guinea-Bissau PAIGC liberation movement 1973-1974 Coutinho Collection
Ivory Coast 1961-1962 NSAG Dutch students photo collection
Kenya 1975 Rietveld Collection (East Africa)
Liberia 1972-1986 Fred van der Kraaij Collection
Mali 1961-1962 NSAG Dutch students photo collection
1972-1986 Fred van der Kraaij Collection
Dogon 1979-1996, 2005 W.E.A. van Beek Collection (Dogon) 120
1996-1997 Van Achterberg Collection
Mauritania 1996-1997 Van Achterberg Collection
Morocco 1972-1986 Fred van der Kraaij Collection
1996-1997 Van Achterberg Collection
Namibia 1996-1997 Van Achterberg Collection
Niger 1996-1997 Van Achterberg Collection
Nigeria 1970-1973 Rietveld Collection (Nigeria) 90
1961-1962 NSAG Dutch students photo collection
Senegal 1961-1962 NSAG Dutch students photo collection
1972-1986 Fred van der Kraaij Collection
PAIGC liberation movement 1973-1974 Coutinho Collection
Sierra Leone 1910s Lisk-Carew Brothers Collection 18
1934-1936 Hofstra Collection 110
Somaliland Hargeisa, cave paintings 2019 Van de Bruinhorst Collection 100
South Africa Robben Island 2015 Rietveld Collection (Robben Island) 57
Sudan 1961-1962 NSAG Dutch students photo collection
Togo 1961-1962 NSAG Dutch students photo collection
Tunisia 1996-1997 Van Achterberg Collection
Tanzania Zanzibar postal stamps 1866-1900 Zanzibar postal stamps 20
Uganda 1961-1962 NSAG Dutch students photo collection
Zambia/Zimbabwe 1975 Rietveld Collection (East Africa)
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