Nigerian women in traditional attire. Photo from Paxgaea.com
Young Fante woman, Cape Coast, Ghana. Source: Photographer unknown, c. 1885-1910, Ghana Photographic Album, EEPA 1995-018-0002, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Fanti woman from Sekondi wearing a Etam na Akatado around 1910.
Ghanaian women wearing tekua with mbobɔho. Silver Jubilee of Ashantis King, Otumfo Opoku II in Kumasi, Ghana. 14th August 1995. Photo by Marc Deville.
(Left to Right ) Ghana Politicians A. Casely Hayford, Komla Agbeli Gbedemah, Kwame Nkrumah, and Kojo Botsio speaking at the Ghana independence ceremonies (March 1957). Nkrumah and Botsio can be seen wearing a smock. Mark Kauffman/The LIFE Picture.
Fanti men from Sekondi wearing mbanyin tam, 1905 circa.
A Ga girl in Adda. Ghana, ca. 1883/1888. H. Hürlimann, Missionary; Historical Photographs from the Basel Mission.
Nana Dokua II, Queen Mother of Akropong, wearing traditional regal gowns. From DRUM Magazine Ghana, 1969. Scanned by Korateng Ofosu-Amaah.
Dresses from the late 60s worn by Ghanaian models Doris Amponsah and Margaret Sarpong. From DRUM Magazine Ghana, 1969. Scanned by Korateng Ofosu-Amaah.
Sleet and Kaba (on the left), worn by a Ghanaian model. From DRUM Magazine Ghana, 1969. Scanned by Korateng Ofosu-Amaah.
Four ladies of Tarkwa, Ghana. 1920 circa. By P. A. McCann.
Ghanaian women wearing lappa, a headscarf. From DRUM Magazine Ghana, 1969. Scanned by Korateng Ofosu-Amaah.
Ghanaian women wearing Kente in the 70s, for a church celebration. Accra, Ghana, 1970s. James Barnor/Autograph ABP, London.
Portrait of Fante women wearing Tekua by Philip Kwame Apagya. 1980s.
Portrait of Fante women wearing tekua, mbobɔho, and ntama, 1964. Photo by Roy Sieber.
Makeba dress worn by Ghanaian model Victoria Addai. From DRUM Magazine Ghana, 1969. Scanned by Korateng Ofosu-Amaah.
Portrait of men wearing boubou, by Seydou Keïta. Bamako, Mali, 1975.
Rwandan groom and groomsmen in Mushanana Traditional Attire.
Chief Ariyo holds an ape and an iyaṣin omalóre in his hands while wearing an udamalore and eja at his hip. Photo: Justine Cordwell, 1949, courtesy of Colin Cordwell.
Traditional Nigerian dress and jewelry were worn by Mrs. Omobola Obiogun; one of er country's chief trade officers; on a visit to Canada and the CNE. (Photo by Harold Whyte, 1965)
“A Ga girl in Adda” Ghana. ca. 1883/1888 || H. Hürlimann, Missionary; Historical Photographs from the Basel Mission.
Wives of the Oba of Benin in their palace quarters, Benin City, 1986.
Betsileo woman from Madagascar, 1920.
Carisco people, Cameroon. Vintage postcard; post stamped Jan. 1912; Livreville, Gabon
After the Funeral, Philip Kwame Apagya. 1998.
Women in traditional attire in Lagos, Nigeria.
Fante Tekua.
