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Children from the Wagogo Tribe Wear Special Headgear for the Circumcision Ceremony, by George Rodger, 1947

in recent decades have migrated to urban areas or work on plantations

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Portrait Study, East Africa, 1875, photographer unknown

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Nuba Dancers of Cau, by Leni Riefenstahl, 1975

unique and fascinating photographs, which now constitute a lasting record of what was once their way of life ... "

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M'suguma Dancers in Tanzania by C Vincenti, 1898

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Five Turbanned Dahomey Women by Irving Penn, 1967. Dahomey in west Africa is now the Republic of Benin

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Early Morning Wait at Lake Rudolph, by Mirella Ricciardi, 1968. Lake Rudolph, now known as Lake Turkana, is in Kenya's arid Great Rift Valley. Up to three million years ago, when the area was more fertile, the lakeside was home for some of humans' earliest known ancestors

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Contemporary African Couple by Seydou Keita, 1956

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Chief Kingo by C Vincenti, 1898

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Benin Woman Smoking, by Hector Acebes, 1953

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African Dinka girls, by George Rodger, 1948