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Title
An Ibo Child Eats Grass, Nigeria, ca.1967-1969
Creator
unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1960/1969
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
Abilene Christian University. Brown Library. Milliken Special Collections
Contact address or phone given here.
Special Collections and Archives, Brown Library, Abilene Christian University, Box 29208, Abilene, TX 79699-9208; 325-674-2348
ask@acu.libanswers.com
Description
"We have learned to eat grass." A child from the Ibo people in Eastern Nigeria eats grass from a bowl. This picture was taken in the late 1960s in what was then called "Biafra," the state that broke away from Nigeria and led to the Nigerian Civil War. During and especially after the war, starvation was widespread among the Ibo people. Two American missionaries from Churches of Christ, Rees Bryant and Jim Massey, took a survey trip into Biafra to see how the church could be of assistance and were later involved in providing aid to the Ibo people of eastern Nigeria.
Type
image
Format
photographic print
photographs
Identifier
IMPA-ACU-JL-20-M1-028.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-91099
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMPA-ACU-JL-20-M1-028.jpg
Subject
Children
Humanitarian assistance
Portraits
Time Period
1960/1969
Source
ACU/JL/20/M1/28 [File]
Relation
Abilene Christian University. Brown Library. Milliken Special Collections
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Jimmie Lovell Papers, Center for Restoration Studies
Photographs from Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas, 1899-1969

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