NIGERIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR - A Yoruba woman weaves native cloth on a traditional hand-loom South West Nigeria, March 1945. The cloth was woven from locally-grown cotton and dyed by local methods. Before the Second World War, production was steadily declining due to cheap imports from Europe and elsewhere, but wartime restrictions led to a revival in the local product. A black and white copy negative ,

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