Pictures of Yoruba's and Yorubaland in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s & 90s

Yaba Lagos in 1960

A Yorùbá woman with child on her back working with her sewing machine in Ibadan market. c.1950s

Photo: Clarence. W Sorensen Collection

The first housing estate in Nigeria
Bodija Ibadan

The Ibadan Housing Estate was birthed in 1959 when the regional government decided to increase the number of modern houses available in the city

A Yorùbá couple in London. Date: 23/2/1953

Yoruba woman with a beautiful elaborate hairstyle. Òsogbo, Nigeria. July 1970

Photographer: Eliot Elisofon.

Fashionable Yorùbá women ( Market women) standing in front of a building on Marina, Lagos Island. 1948

Yoruba women dyers with their dye pots, Osogbo, 1898.

Chief Wuraola Adepeju Esan: Nigeria's 1st Female National Assembly Member.

Chief Amodu Tijani: This Yoruba Chief Took Britain to Court in 1921 for Stealing His Land and Won a Huge Compensation of £22,500,39

Yoruba ladies in the 80s

Yoruba women 1960

Eko (Lagos)

Idumago in 1920s

1960 Yoruba woman

A Yoruba woman weaves native cloth on a traditional hand-loom The cloth was woven from locally-grown cotton and dyed by local methods. Before the Second World War, production was steadily declining due to cheap imports from Europe and elsewhere,

but wartime restrictions led to a revival in the local product.

South West Nigeria

March 1945.

A group of Yoruba women in the festival of ere ibeji images

Photograph by William Fagg

Kolese style in the 80s

Yoruba potter in the 80s

A Yoruba woman in 1956, at Lagos, Yorubaland. During Queen Elizabeth's visit to Yorubaland and the rest of Nigeria

Yoruba women in the 80s

Mr & Mrs John Oke Agbede

1st white wedding in Igede Ekiti

Western Region of Nigeria.

January 11, 1940

(Ekiti, although, was created in 1996. I think the metadata referred to that region of Ondo state, now Igede Ekiti)

Oba Adenji Adele ll (a Yoruba chiefdom) and his wife are welcome by the Duke of Devonshire at the Commonwealth Relations Office

Yoruba women, removing seeds from cocoa pods

Adamo village, Nigeria.

(1959)

Miss Nigeria 1957

Ibadan, Nigeria. 1960

Miss E.A Adebonojo, a Nigerian Student Studying At University Of London

Geography class at Marlborough Senior Girls School

Islesworth 1946.

Female graduates of University college in Ibadan, Nigeria. 1953

Akikenju Oba Adétutu Akinmu, King of Savé, Benin republic (the 13th King of the Dynasty, born November 9, 1948, enthroned June 23, 2005).

Picture of Ibadan in the 60s

Wole Soyinka

Tokunbo Awolowo, daughter of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, presents a bouquet of flowers to Queen Elizabeth II of England, Ibadan, 1956.

Marina Lagos in 1968

Broad street, Lagos Island in 1960

When MV AUREOL was getting delivered to Apapa port in 1950

Queen Elizabeth Met Oba Of Lagos In Style on february 27, 1956

We present to you the first reported 3-storey building in one of Africa’s largest city, Lagos. Check on it!

The above 3-storey building which dates back to 1913 is known as ‘Petesi Anduru – which literally means ‘the upstairs of Andrew’ in English or ‘Ile awo si fila.’

1950s, Nigeria male students sitting on wooden desks in a classroom while putting on traditional yoruba agbada, a wide-sleeved robe and wearing aso oke hats, a traditional yoruba hat.