Jacqueline Ki-Zerbo & André Salifou.
Mères et Enfants de l'Afrique d'Autrefois.
Abidjan: Unicef,Fonds des Nations Unies pour l'enfance, Bureau régional pour l'Afrique occidentale et centrale, 1979.
Hardcover.
118 pages.
French language.
Very good.
Uncommon hardcover bound in blue cloth with gold foiling featuring a cover reproduction of a photographic postcard postmarked 1904 featuring two mothers and their babies in the Belgian Congo, present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo.
143 cartes postales anciennes (collection UNICEF).
143 postcards are reproduced, largely from the beginning of the 20th century.
Portraits of children, singly, in groups, with friends, with family, etc. A remarkable document of children, their families and their life under colonialism from the colonialist viewpoint.
Essays, in French, discuss the conditions of children under colonial power in Africa.
