26 September 2018 - COLONIAL EAST AFRICA IN THE 1920'S



 COLONIAL EAST AFRICA
 IN THE 1920'S

G'day folks,

Check out these shots of tourists in East Africa in the 1920's. Published in 1929, what strikes me most about the photographs is how they’ve really managed to make the East African colony of Mozambique just look like one giant country club for white folks– dressed in their own white linen uniform, replicating their luxurious lifestyles in foreign lands as if it were a god-given right.







































Clancy's comment: Mm ... Life must have been tough, eh?

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