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Since the era of colonialism, the medium of photography has been widely explored in Africa. First as an ethnographical tool, documenting the landscape, people and architecture of our ‘primitive’ continent, and later, with the coming of independence, as a to record of socio-cultural, economic and technological transformation of ‘third-world’ countries. From the famous West African studio avant-garde to the detailed storytellers in East Africa, the medium of photography was then taken up by different schools of African photographers to tell their own stories. To reminisce about the past; …