Category: The Black Star Collection
Creator: FARNWORTH, William
Event Date: ????-08-03
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.060439

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: Nyasaland / Types / B.S.; typed label: Photos by W. Farnworth, A.R.T. Films, Salisbury / NYASALAND INTIMIDATION ?? / These pictures of arson in a small village in the central / province of Nyasaland show the aftermath of trouble in / this remote part of Africa. With the elections only a / few days away, the Federal Government under Sir Roy / Welensky is insisting that the arson is intimidation / by the main African political party, the Malawi Congress / Party. The Malawi Party and others say that the burnings / were caused by an ordinary tribal feud of the type that / also go on in the Congo. What is the truth!!; stamped: A.R.T. FILMS / BOX 8252 C WAY TELEPHONE 2394 / 47 NORTH AVE, SALISBURY; typed label: Photos taken on 3rd August at Mbobo village, near [illeg.] the burnings / were not at Visanza. / Photographer states that the atmosphere in the village was one of shocked / grief. The menfolk were not there. Little effort had been made to clear / up the damage caused by the arson on the 7th, 8th, or 26th July (not certain / what burnings these were / (Geoffrey Mangin); stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / W. Farnworth [handwritten] / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING NEW YORK

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: MALAWI / NYASALAND
Retouching: N