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Photochrome of a street in Sidi Okba, Algeria, ~1900

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Rug merchants in Cairo, Egypt, 1870s

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Photochrom of beggars in front of a mosque, Algiers, Algeria, 1899

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Traditional crossdressing dancer ('Khawal'), Egypt, ~1870

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Warriors posing for a photo, Africa, exact location unknown, between 1920-1950

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Mounted warriors in Cameroon, ~1905

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Servant or slave woman in Mogadishu, Somalia, 1882

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People along the Nile River, Egypt, ~1900?

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First LGBT Pride march in Johannesburg, South Africa, 1990

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Desert well in Ethiopia or Somalia, ~1900

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Camels carrying grain, Morocco, 1917

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Men in front of a Kapok tree, Cameroon, 1917

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Dervish warrior, Sudan, 1909

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Gold seller weighing gold, Ghana, 1890s

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Sociologist Fatima Mernissi, and professor Fatima Chebchoub in traditional clothing, Morocco, 1970s?

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Cafe in Algiers, Algeria, ~1875

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Hand-colored portrait of Emperor Menelik II armed for war, Ethiopia, 1889

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Rider in Cameroon, ~1920

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Date merchants, Egypt, some time before 1923

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Procession through a street in Algeria, ~1900

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Turkish president Cevdet Sunay and King Idris of Libya are greeted by Libyan children, 1968

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Doing laundry in São Tomé and Príncipe, ~1941

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Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand (famous for his assassination kicking off WW1) posing as a mummy, Cairo, Egypt, 1896

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Rowboat filled with baskets, Tangier, Morocco, 1935

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Boats on the Nile, Egypt, early 20th century

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Alleyway market stall in Algiers, Algeria, 1913

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Farouk I, the former King of Egypt, taking a walk by the pool while in exile in Italy, 1953

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Street in Cairo, Egypt, 1955

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Cotton farmer in Sudan, 1961

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Anglo-Egyptian cavalryman and mount (camel), 1900-1920

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Queen vocalist Freddie Mercury at the age of 4, Zanzibar, Tanzania, 1950

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British soldiers after the punitive raid on Benin City, Nigeria, 1897

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Two men on a boat on the Awash River, Ethiopia, 1956

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African medical students in Quedlinburg, East Germany, 1963

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Mosque in Accra, Ghana, 1966

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Mr. Obuobisa, head of the Museum And Monuments Board, in traditional dress; Elmina, Ghana, 1966

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View of El Jem, Tunisia, 1960s

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Traditional religious ritual in Kaolack, Senegal, 1967

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Street in Casablanca, Morocco, 1930s

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Pack donkey in the streets of a city of Morocco, ~1910

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Woman harvesting coffee with a baby on her back, Kenya, British Empire, 1936

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Herding sheep in Egypt, 1944

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Infantry with a Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR), Ethiopia, 1934

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Makeshift armored car manned by Moroccan freedom fighters, Rif War, 1922

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Tourists in Egypt, 1920s

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Fruit sellers in Cairo, Egypt, 1870s

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Senegalese soldiers in the French Army on the Western Front, WW1, 1917

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Clash between Egyptian forces and British occupiers during the Battle of Ismailia, preceding the Egyptian Revolution, 1952

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Mosque in Liberia, early 20th century

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Mounted nomad warrior of the Bishari people, Southern Egypt, late 19th century

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Street in the Royal Quarter of Benin City, now Nigeria, 1897

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The capital city of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 1930

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Hemp rope armor of the British locomotive "Hairy Mary", South Africa, Second Boer War, ~1898

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Compound in Agukwu Nri, Nigeria, 1911

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Mosque in Cameroon, 1910

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Coronation of Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa of the Central African Empire, 1977

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Maasai warriors alongside a train of the Ugandan Railway, British East Africa, ~1900

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Adeyemi I Alowolodu, King of Oyo, Nigeria, around 1900 AD

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