Slide and Photo Resources
The best source for inexpensive, quality slides and photos is CIDA, the Canadian International Development Agency. Currently slides cost $2 each. You can call, write, or fax CIDA requesting particular series (e.g., shots of the capital of Ghana, Kenyan village life, a Koranic school). A contact sheet of slides on a selected topic can be ordered for $14, which then allows you to select those you most want. (Costs are quoted in Canadian dollars.) Ask how long an order will take; usually this will be around two weeks. If you would like, when ordering, ask if they can give you a brief caption (e.g., “Nairobi” for your slides).
David Barbour, Photo Editor
CIDA
200 Promenade du Portage
Hull, Quebec K1A OG4
CANADA
Phone: 819-953-8471
Fax: 819-953-6381
CIDA’s photo library also covers Asia and Latin America and perhaps now eastern Europe as well.
Other quality relatively inexpensive photo sources:
- The Maryknoll Order
P.O. Box 308
Maryknoll, NBY 10545-0308
(covers Asia and Latin America as well) - National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian
202-357-4600
(photo collection extends well beyond art to society as a whole) - AfricaFocus, Sights and Sounds of a Continent University of Wisconsin-Madison African Studies Program and the University of Wisconsin Memorial Library