This category contains photographs of Africa made by Mr. L. A. van Es, PhD., a medical doctor and Leiden university professor, and his fellow travellers engineer Mr. M. M. U. van Dis and medical doctor Mr. H. F. J. M. Crebolder, all from the Netherlands. They took these photographs during an expedition of the NSAG (Nederlands Studenten Afrika Gezelschap, Dutch Student Africa Society, consisting of thirteen Dutch students) travelling mainly from east to west across North Africa in 1961-1962. The images are a kind gift by them to the African Studies Centre Leiden and Wikimedia Commons in 2019 and 2020.

Notes[edit]

• Route of the NSAG student group through Africa by truck, from Egypt: Cairo - Abu Simbel/Assuan - Wadi Halfa, to Sudan: Khartoum. By airplane from Sudan: Khartoum to Uganda: Kampala and back. By truck from Sudan: Khartoum - Sennar - El Obeid - Nyala - Golol in the Marra Mountains, to Chad: Abéché - Fort Lamy, to Cameroon: Bongor, to Nigeria: Kano - Zaria - Kaduna - Nsukka - Enugu - Ibadan - Lagos, to Dahomey (later called Benin): Porto Novo, to Togo: Lomé, to Ghana: Accra - Kumasi, and to Côte d'Ivoire: Abidjan. By airplane from Côte d'Ivoire: Abidjan to Burkina Faso: Ouagadougou, to Mali: Bamako and back to Côte d'Ivoire: Abidjan. By airplane: from Côte d'Ivoire: Abidjan to Senegal: Dakar. Finally by boat to Italy: Genoa.
• The three sturdy trucks used by the students were type DAF YA-126, which were borrowed from the Royal Dutch Army.
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The photographers[edit]

• 
  Harry Crebolder caught photographing on board the ship Johan van Oldenbarnevelt - November 1961
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  Harry Crebolder with a young African boy, Kampala, Uganda - 29-11-1961
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  Harry Crebolder playing checkers in Kumasi, Ghana - November 1961
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  Maarten van Dis and a souvenir seller
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  Maarten van Dis, Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria - 18-21 January 1962

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  Bob van Es writing in his diary, Bongor, Chad, January 1962
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  Bob van Es listening
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  Bob van Es in El Geneina, Sudan, December 29-30, 1961

Literature[edit]

• (report in Dutch) openaccess.leidenuniv.nl Birnie, F. et al: Rapport dagboek van dertien : verslag van een studiereis van dertien Nederlandse studenten van nov. 1961 tot april 1962 langs Afrikaanse universiteiten, Nederlands Studenten Afrika Gezelschap, 1963 (104 pages) (All thirteen authors: Birnie, F.; Broek, H. van den; Crebolder, H.F.J.M.; Creutzberg, A. Ae.; Dis, M.M.U. van; Dongen, P.G. van; Es, L.A. van; Galjart, B.F.; Geer, D.J. de; Hardon, P.M.; Muyzenberg, L.W. van den; Notten, W.J.P. van; Wenckebach, G.B.)

Abstract: From November 1961 to April 1962, a group of thirteen Dutch students visited the following African universities: Khartoum (Sudan), Kampala (Uganda), Zaria (Kaduna State, Northern Nigeria), Nsukka (Enugu State, Nigeria) and Dakar (Senegal) on an extensive mainly road trip. The purpose of the trip was to establish contacts with African students. Various group members contributed to this report.

Usage and copyright[edit]

• Usage of these images on Wikimedia projects, main namespace (articles) only.

• Copyright for the photographs by L.A. van Es has been settled under Wikimedia Commons OTRS Ticket#2019122310004565, with the license self|CC-BY-SA-4.0|GFDL|author=L.A. van Es (Template:L.A. van Es): to be done 06/2020
• Copyright for the photographs by Maarten M.W. van Dis, Wikimedia Commons OTRS Ticket#2020041110003314, with the license self|CC-BY-SA-4.0|author=NSAG (Nederlands studenten Afrika Gezelschap) (Template:NSAG (Nederlands Studenten Afrika Gezelschap))
• List of image files in the NSAG Collection tbd

Languages used in the photo descriptions[edit]

• Descriptions of the images are provided in at least one of the official languages of the relevant countries and in any case in English and in Dutch. These official languages are, according to Wikipedia country articles in English and French, for Benin (formerly Dahomey): French, lingua franca Fon (no translation in Fon available), Cameroon/Cameroun: English and French, Chad: French and Arabic (lingua franca: Chadian Arabic), Egypt: Arabic, Ghana: English, Ivory Coast: French, Nigeria: English, Senegal: French, lingua franca Wolof (no translation in Wolof available), Sudan: Arabic, Togo: French, Uganda: English and (Ki)Swahili. Photo filenames are not in Arabic or (Ki)Swahili, as the uploader does not know these languages. For the usage of Arabic and (Ki)Swahili in the metadata, please refer to the disclaimer below.

Disclaimer

• The descriptions, names of depicted places and dates in Arabic and (Ki)Swahili have been produced by machine translation (Google Translate) without expert correction and might accordingly contain errors. Although the main metadata (descriptions, locations and dates) in one of the used languages have been carefully checked by the donors, the uploader is solely responsible for any remaining errors. The uploader, Hansmuller (talk) 11:44, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

Ten African universities visited[edit]

Table of contents[edit]

The uploader of the photographs, Hansmuller (talk) 09:04, 18 June 2021 (UTC)