[Soldiers and armed policemen in Lagos, Nigeria]

[Soldiers and armed policemen in Lagos, Nigeria]

Photograph

Ray Onwuemebulem

[Soldiers and armed policemen in Lagos, Nigeria]

ca. 1998
Gelatin silver print
Paper: 7 7/8 × 9 15/16 in. (20 × 25.2 cm)
Image: 6 7/8 × 9 5/16 in. (17.4 × 23.7 cm)
Gift of the FiftyCrows Foundation
2015.0133.0464
Inscriptions Typed label taped to verso, C: (17) DEMOCRACY WE WANT / Youths protesting against the annulled / June 12, 1993, carrying a marked [corrected in black pen] portraite [sic] / of Nigeria's former immediate military/ dictator, General Ibrahim Babangida whose / government annuled the election. / The presidential election was [black pen] adjudged the freest / and fairest in the history of the nation by / International observers and the local press.
Inscribed in pencil on tape applied to verso, BR: Onwuemegbulem / 17
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