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APN760623

Creator: Drum Stories Description: In Johannesburg women have been arrested on various vagrancy charges

APN760212

Creator: Drum Social Histories Description: Africa Day Celebrations on 25 June – People gathered in Sophiatown to celebrate Freedom Day.

APN760208

Creator: Drum Social Histories Description: Africa Day Celebrations 25 June – People gathered in Sophiatown to celebrate Freedom Day.

APN760207

Creator: Drum Social Histories Description: Africa Day Celebrations 25 June – People gathered in Sophiatown to celebrate Freedom Day.

APN760206

Creator: Drum Social Histories Description: Africa Day Celebrations 25 June – People gathered in Sophiatown to celebrate Freedom Day.

APN760205

Creator: Drum Social Histories Description: Africa Day Celebrations 25 June – People gathered in Sophiatown to celebrate Freedom Day.

APN760170

Creator: Drum Social Histories Description: Sobhuza Uses Power For People's Good – The King in an evening suit at a royal banquet given in honour of Princess Alexandra and her husband, the Hon. Angus Ogilvy, during Swaziland's independence celebrations. Africa has few kings today who have the power to exert influence in their countries. They are either constitutional monarchs or act as nominal heads of state with little power. The one difference is Swaziland. King Sobhuza II of Swaziland is more than a constitutional monarch; he actively leads his country. He tells his nation that it was the tradition of all African kingdoms that their kings were leaders as well as kings.

APN759857

Creator: Drum Social Histories Description: Nigeria Independence Anniversary. Children celebrating Independence anniversary.

APN759854

Creator: Drum Social Histories Description: Nigeria Independence Anniversary. Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa.

APN759853

Creator: Drum Social Histories Description: Nigeria Independence Anniversary. Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and other leaders.

APN759819

Creator: Drum Social Histories Description: The new Olowo celebrates the Igogo Festival. Young Owo maidens, dressed in great style, are a most attractive feature of the festival.

APN759726

Creator: Drum Social Histories Description: The City of Kano, People of Kano – Kano in Northern Nigeria, is one of Nigeria's historic and important towns. But there are really two Kanos. One being the small European town which is the administrative capital and the other a mile or two way is the ancient native City of Kano many centuries old.

APN759724

Creator: Drum Social Histories Description: Children moving from one house to another, dancing, drumming, and singing in unison after their leader who wore a frightening Ikot-Ekpene carved mask.

APN759679

Creator: Drum Social Histories Description: Meet Zik's happy clan. Miss Ngozi Azikiwe, her first big party, at her first big party in the State House, Ngozi greets some of the guests. Ngozi is Dr and Mrs Azikiwe's only daughter. Naturally their pride and joy. If the United States of America has its Kennedy Clan, so has the Federation of Nigeria its Azikiwe Clan. The Nigerian Federation's Azikiwe Clan has produced for the country its first African Governor-General, three bubbling young men, and one cute, and already very sophisticated young woman, who is doing her best not to be left behind by her three brothers, each of whom is full of youth and enthusiasm.

APN759673

Creator: Drum Social Histories Description: Aso-Ebi: A noble old custom or a curse? The type of dress causing headaches. The Aso-Ebi craze has been the father of many evils in Nigeria Social functions, like marriages or funerals, house-warming parties or children's naming ceremonies, are the excuse for Nigerian women to appear bedecked from head to toe in jewellery of the same pattern, in costly velveteen of the same pattern, in native hand-woven cloths of same pattern, with shoes to match. The average cost of an Aso-Ebi outfit is from £60 to £90.