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you who fashion our rugged lives to suit you. your grace is in style. always in vogue. ¬kantamanto nyame.

The Life of the Old Parliament House of Ghana. High Street, Accra, c. 1960. 1. Originally built in 1935 as King George V Memorial Hall to serve as Accra's Town Hall. It had a library wing, and an auditorium used to host public events, including popular concert parties organised by the working classes. 2. Then it was taken over by the colonial government of Gold Coast, and used as the Legislative Assembly, after the 1939 earthquake damaged the initial Legislative Council building. 3. And it was right here that the Gold Coast's first nationally elected legislature convened in 1951, with Kwame Nkrumah serving as Leader of Government Business. 4. Following independence in 1957, the selective & colonial Legislative Assembly became the more representative National Assembly, and the building became popularly known as the Parliament House. 5. It remained Ghana's Parliament House throughout the First, Second & Third Republics until 1981. 6. Since 1993, Parliament has sat at the present Parliament House (Job 600), originally built by Nkrumah & intended for the 1965 meeting of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). 7. In the forecourt of the old Parliament House stood the original statue of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. The statue was taken down after his overthrow in 1966 and now stands in the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum Complex. 8. Today, it houses the Commission on Human Rights & Administrative Justice (CHRAJ). 🎥: Willis E. Bell

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@KZankeli Shoulder pads at work

pictured at the opening of the africa first ladies peace mission forum. l to r : nana konadu agyeman-rawlings (ghana), fati lami abubakar (nigeria), kuvamba nujoma (namibia) & stella obasanjo, wife of the then nigerian president-elect olusegun obasanjo abuja, 10 may 1999. 🎥: AFP

nigeria's bisi oyunleye (r) & malian fatoumata diakite (l) looking elegant. representing african women 's lobby groups, they called on african gov'ts to set aside 1% of their annual budgets to create a women 's trust fund. for development or extravaganza? 🎥: @UN / bella center, copenhagen, 9th march 1995.

kirikiri prison, lagos, 21st february 1998. a firing squad commanded by an army captain taking position to fire at six condemned armed robbers. 🎥: afp

french doctor & two natives give an african boy a lumbar puncture against sleeping sickness as governor bomecarrere & mp. susset look on. march 1933, yaoundé, cameroon.

ghana portland cement factory, tema, c. 1960s. now ghacem.

area around the independence square, accra, c. 1970s. greener than it is now.

fathia nkrumah, first lady of ghana, & her son gamal in the gardens at the christiansborg castle. osu, ghana, c. 1960.

aerial view of christiansborg castle, osu, c. 1970s.

two convicted armed robbers executed by firing squad. illorin, nigeria, 10th June 1971. 🎥: popperfoto

wonder what colour they see

churchill was a mammoth of a man, merhn...

an akan brass weight used for weighing gold dust, representing a proverb about animal intercourse. gold coast (ghana), c. 1900s. not rome. 🎥: werner forman

akan brass weight used for weighing gold dust, representing a man & woman during sexual intercourse. gold coast (ghana), c. 1900s. not greece.

okomfo anokye's sword, driven into the ground at kumasi. tradition holds that it marks the site of the ashanti capital, and that no person or machine can remove it. 🎥: werner forman, c. 1977.