Commons:F. van der Kraaij Collection

This page shows a photographic sample (to be done) from the F. van der Kraaij Collection on Africa. Dutch economist Fred P. M. van der Kraaij donated his own photographs of West Africa (Burkina Faso, Liberia, Mali and Senegal), Morocco and Libya (upcoming) over the years 1972-1987 to the African Studies Centre Leiden and Wikimedia Commons in 2017. The collection includes a few thousand reverse slides.

Benin

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  Cathedral Notre-Dame de Miséricorde, Cotonou, Benin, 1972.
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  Disputed area. Lété Island in the Niger River, Benin, 1972.
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  A crowd near a gas station. Cotonou, Benin, 1972.
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  Concrete university buildings, Cotonou, Benin, 1972.

Burkina Faso 1972, 1981-1984

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An agricultural project

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  An extension workers and ten farmers, Poura-Basméré, Balé, Boucle du Mouhoun, Burkina Faso, 1981
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  A meeting of the farmers' organisation with extension workers, Poura-Basméré, Balé, Boucle du Mouhoun, Burkina Faso, 1981
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  A Burkinese extension worker and Dr. Fred van der Kraaij, Mossi Plateau, 1982
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  French expert Jacques Reeb studies a map with a local worker, Mossi Plateau, 1982
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  Personnel of the projet Fonds de développement rural, Mossi Plateau, 1982
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  Extension workers inspect a water basin, Centre, 1982

A cotton market

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  Boys and men at the cotton market of Pouytenga, Kouritenga, Centre-Est, 1981
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  A humorous man is showing off his strength, same

Towns and villages

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  Railway station of Bobo-Dioulasso, Houet, Hauts-Bassins, Burkina Faso, 1981
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  Bare-foot merchants at the railway platform, 1972
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  An old man from the village, same, 1981
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  Fulani villagers with buckets near the well, Boucle du Mouhoun, 1984

Art

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  Ouobogo, King, 1934 - 1978. Sanmatenga, Centre-Nord, 1982
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  Tigré son of Bulli, King of Yatenga, 1914-1954. Same
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  Sigiri son of Tigré, King of Yatenga, 1954-1960. Same
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  Koom son of Sigiri, King of Yatenga, 1960-1975. Same

Ivory Coast 1980

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  A woman and her two daughters (?) in front of a lagoon and Hotel President in the distance, Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire, 1980
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  The Great Mosque, Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire, 1980
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  Pedestrians along broad asphalt roads, Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire, 1980
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  A smiling young cyclist, two women and a man on a dirt road. Senufo Region, North of Côte d'Ivoire, 1980
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  Traditional round village huts. Senufo Region, North of Côte d'Ivoire, 1980
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  Farmers at work. Senufo Region, North of Côte d'Ivoire, 1980
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  A Rüppell's vulture and four hooded vultures are feasting on a dead zebu, with a cattle egret watching. A dirt road between Danané and Man, Ivory Coast, 1980.

Liberia

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  LAMCO J.V. A flat belt conveyor on a tall iron construction in a landscape with open pit mining for iron ore - Yekepa, Nimba county, Liberia, 1976
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  The Firestone rubber plantation. A rubber tapper with a bucket, a paved road with people. Harbel, Montserrado county, Liberia, 1976
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  The Firestone rubber plantation. Interior of the latex factory. A storage room with folded latex sheets. Harbel, Montserrado county, Liberia, 1976
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  The Firestone rubber plantation. A dam for hydro energy surrounded by bushes. Harbel, Montserrado county, Liberia, 1976

Libya

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  The old medina with the Turkish clock tower, Tripoli, 1972.
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  Three boys in a garden, Tripoli, 1972.
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  The Turkish clock tower,, Tripoli, 1972.
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  Two women in white are talking, Tripoli, 1972.
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  A park and the old medina seen from above, Tripoli, 1972.

Mali

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  A smiling Sonrai (Songhay) girl. Timbuktu region, Mali, 1972.
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  Six smiling Sarakolé (Soninké or Marka) women. Kayes region, Mali, 1972
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  A young Sonraï (Songhay) woman with a fixed stare. Timbuktu region, Mali, 1972.
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  A market crowd near stalls. Mopti, Mali, 1972.
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  "Vive la Ière industrie lourde au Mali!" Lpng live the first heavy industry in Mali! at a cement factory, Diamou, Mali, 1972.
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  A covered boat on the Niger River, near Diré, Timbuktu region, Mali, 1972.
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  An improvised restaurant, Sikasso, Mali, 1972
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  Pedestrians near the Institut National des Arts. Bamako, Mali, 1972
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  A female banana seller. Sikasso, Mali, 1972
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  The front of Grande Mosquée. Djenné, Mali, 1972
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  An alley with mud houses. Ségou, Mali, 1972
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  A sunset with children. Mopti, Mali, 1972

Morocco, 1973

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  View of the rock of Gibraltar, from Tanger, 1973
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  Two dromedaries in a sterile landscape, Tanger, Maroc, 1973
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  Bab Boujloud with a group of people. Fès, Maroc, 1973
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  Cattle market with dromedaries and donkeys, Marrakech, Maroc, 1973
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  Roofs and the Koutoubia Mosque. Marrakech, Maroc, 1973
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  The Kasbah. Ouarzazate, Maroc, 1973
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  Women and children at the well. Ouarzazate, Maroc, 1973
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  Gate Bab Bousilout. Fès, Maroc, 1973
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  A girl in the gardens of Fès, Maroc, 1973

Niger

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  Fifteen dromedaries with three drivers, Ayourou, Niger, 1972
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  Women, men and children on a street of Niamey, Niger, 1972
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  The island Lété in the Niger River with two settlements, Benin border, 1972
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  People at a market in front of the twelve-storey flat El-Nasr, Niamey, Niger, 1972

Senegal

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  A family of salespeople at the market, Dakar, 1972.
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  A crowd in front of the railway station, Dakar, 1972.
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  Decorated street front of a bar, Dakar, 1972.
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  Same.
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  A young man and an old man in a pointed Peul hat, Tambacounda, Senegal, 1972.
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  Falémé River at the Senegal-Mali border, 1984.

Togo

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  Togolese customs office at the Ghana border, Togo, 1981
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  Two rows of fishermen are hauling their nets onto the beach. Lomé, Togo, 1981
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  The West African Development Bank (Banque Ouest Africaine de Développement), Lomé, Togo, 1981
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  Construction workers are building stands for Liberation Day 13 January 1982, 1981
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  A special grave monument for a chief, Davié, Togo 1981
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  A bust of General Eyadéma in front of government buildings, Pya, Togo, 1983
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  A pier with a pipeline and cranes at Lomé harbor, Togo, 1983

Tunisia

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  Five women in burqa cross the street, Sfax, 1972
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  A woman converses with men in a park, Sfax, 1972
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  A Berber woman with a child in a market crowd, Tunis, 1972