Category: The Black Star Collection
Creator: FARNWORTH, William
Event Date: 1961
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.060454

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: 1961; handwritten: East Africa / Nyasaland / Demonstration; handwritten: 3; stamped: Please credit photo by: / WILLIAM FARNWORTH / P.O. Mlanje, Nyasaland; typed label: 3. Flash back to the grim days of 1959, when there was / no democracy in Nyasaland. Only martial law. A political / meeting then would have put the lot behind barbed wire. / Illustrated is KANJEDZA Holding camp, for political / detainees of the outlawed African National Congress. / Almost every African in Nyasaland had either a relative, / friend or acquaintance that passed through Kanjedza. / Note, this was a ‘grab’ shot, even photographers walked / warily; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; stamped: A.R.T. FILMS / BOX 8252, C’WAY TELEPHONE 23974 / 47 NORTH AVE, SALISBURY; handwritten: B.S.

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