FA 215
7 postcards of colonial Sudan, showing an Ostrich feather merchant, native market, Bicharins, a Shuli hut, a Nanos type, a Sudanese soldier and more. B
Price: $105.00
British East / Central Africa
FA 214
Photo of a 1944 Kenyan workshop. B
Price: $25.00
BRA 129
17 vintage postcards issued by Italian missionary societies operating in Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. B
Price: $340.00
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BRA 128
BRA 128
Complete set of 10 postcards by the L’Istituto Missioni Africane di Verona on early activities in Tanzania. Rare.B
Price: $200.00
BRA 127
BRA 127
Six photographic postcards of Rhodesia, showing a tobacco auction at Salisbury, Victoria Falls and the hotel there, Great Zimbabwe and Metabele wives. B
Price: $120.00
BRA 122
Photo album of a group of Heart of Africa (WES International) missionaries to East Africa from 1958-1960. Well annotated with a number of missionaries mentioned by name. Places shown include Karble, Nabugabo, Gahina, Ruanda-Urundi, Eastern and Northern Provinces of Uganda. 174 photos in all. M
Price: $900.00
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BRA 120
Four photos/postcard stock taken by Giorgio Torchia of Nyeri district in the 1930’s. He was photographing missionary activity around the world on behalf of the Vatican. B
Price: $120.00
BRA 117
BRA 117
The Zimbabwean Review, edited by Carole Pearce. A sophisticated and interesting arts magazine issued from Harare. Included are the Preview issue of December 1994 and the first issue of April 1995. B
Price: $300.00
BRA 105
3 Dutch chromo cards on the war in Soudan. M
Price: $90.00
BRA 111Postcard of Prince Logenguela, postmarked 1903. SOLD
Price: $90.00
Note: Peter Kushana Lobengula claimed to be the son of the Ndebele King Lobengula Khumalo (1845–1894). He migrated to Britain and fell in with the circus owner Frank Fillis, whose show was the largest African exhibition ever held in London. Over two hundred Africans and dozens of Afrikaners were brought to London to re-enact battles, songs and dances in front of paying crowds. A film was made of the Africans arriving at Southampton docks and featured dozens of Zulus in dance showing their military agility. This film from 1899 is one of the earliest to show Africans. At Earl’s Court, the performers worked in a vast mock village that was deliberately made to look like an African kraal. Fillis also imported animals, props such as shields and spears and costumes for all of the performers. This attention to detail was intended to make anyone going to the show feel as if they had been transported to Africa without ever leaving London. When the show opened, Peter said: ‘My first thought was that the whole world was white men, and that they had all come to England to meet me!’ At first the show was a huge hit with around 16,000 visitors a day. Later on, public interest waned with the outbreak of the Boer War and in January 1900 the show was cancelled. By April, Fillis had begun touring Britain with only a few dozen Africans, including Peter, and, once again, the show proved popular. He married a woman named Kitty but they divorced in 1902. He subsequently married Maud Wilson and they raised five children. He died from consumption in 1913 at the age of 38 and is buried in Salford.