Discarded colonial era statues, Guinea

One of the first post-independence actions throughout Asia and Africa was to remove or repurpose monuments from countries' pre-independence periods. These mouldering statues of former French administrators fitting look toward the setting sun in Conakry

Welch, Claude Emerson

State University of New York at Buffalo

1964-01

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Africa CD

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Guinean

Conakry (Guinea)

2011-05-05

Welch-Ludwig Collection

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