African Studies Centre Leiden

	Native name	Stichting Afrika-Studiecentrum
	Parent institution	Leiden University
	Location	Leiden
	Coordinates	52° 10′ 11″ N, 4° 28′ 37″ E
	Established	1947
	Web page	www.ascleiden.nl
	Authority control	: Q2174585 VIAF: 140319352 ISNI: 0000 0004 0625 7640 LCCN: n79032089 NKC: ko2010614914 J9U: 987007266992405171 WorldCat

The African Studies Centre (Leiden, ASC) and its affiliated authors have donated more than 5,000 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). A companion page on the ASC Wikimedia photo project is Wikipedia:GLAM/African Studies Centre Leiden.

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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 photos[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 photos[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 photos[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 photos[edit]

Map of Tanganyika, 1926 or 1936
Map of Ruanda Urundi, 1929-1938
Tribal linguistic map of Zambia

Hofstra Collection, Sierra Leone 1934-1936, 517 photos[edit]

Scanned glass plate lantern slides.

A group of eight posing women and a man, (Panguma) 1936-1938
A weaver at work with a group of women with children standing by, Panguma 1934
Tilling the future rice fields, accompanied by a drummer, Panguma 1934
Drying the rice, Panguma, late 1934
A drummer looking up, 1935
A small boy posing in Poro outfit, Panguma 1936
Close-up of a man climbing a palm tree, 1935
Musicians, Panguma, 1936

Koopman Collection, African library postcards 1935-1960, 12 photos[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, 1462 photos[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.

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 Pasha, 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, Nigeria, East Africa, Robben Island 1970-1973, 1975, 2015, 196 photos[edit]

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

Nigeria 1970-1973, 90 photos[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 photos[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 photos[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, 1289 photos[edit]

Dutch economist Fred van der Kraaij lived and worked in Liberia for many years as, e.g., a university lecturer. He donated an extensive collection of photographs of Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Morocco, Niger, Senegal and Togo.

Liberia 1975-1976, 37 photos[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 photos[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 photos[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, Cameroon and Mali 1996-2005, 231 files[edit]

Illustrations from the book Thuis in Afrika - At Home in Africa, about the Dogon people, Mali, 1972 - 2006, 99 photos[edit]

The dancing thieves' society is playing a gang of Muslim Touareg slave hunters, Tireli, Mali, 1994
Zra Kangacè and Tizhè Zra Damba are drinking millet beer, Mogodé, North Cameroon, 1998
Haman Tizhe, Mogodé's "doctor", Mogodé, 2003
The funeral feast for Balayo, Tireli, 2005
Apomi's wives are enacting their husband's journeys, Tireli, 2008

Dogon, Mali, 1979 - 1996, 2005, 120 photos[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 photos[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, Northwest Africa, Namibia, Botswana, 1996-1997, 1916 photos[edit]

Social anthropologist Angeline van Achterberg travelled widely mainly in Northwest Africa for her work, for instance with women's organisations, and authored various books. Algeria, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Mauritania, Mali, Morocco, Namibia, Niger and Tunesia

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 photos[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	1916
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	1400
Egypt, Sudan, Chad, Uganda, Nigeria, Cameroon, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Mali, Senegal	Archeology, landscape, people, universities	1961-1962	NSAG Dutch students photo collection, North Africa	1462
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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