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Lost photos of Africa: Todd Webb s perspective

Todd Webb, Untitled Togoland (Togo) 1958 Women walking along a harbour quay in Lorne. © 2021 Todd Webb Archive This is a lush compilation of photographs taken by Todd Webb in Sub-Saharan Africa over 60 years ago. They were all shot in 1958, halfway through the first 16 years of my life spent in Northern and Southern Rhodesia, now Zambia and Zimbabwe, and so bought alive memories and associations of a happy, sheltered childhood. They also reminded me that being brought up in a country far away from “home” (the UK, apparently), means one’s loyalties are often muddled and remain so. Since Colonial Africa’s legacy is, in any case, weighed down with ambivalence I did not immediately read the accompanying essays in

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