Object number:
2022.1.3574
Object name:
poster; work on paper
Title:
SWAPO: the people armed
Production organization:
Artworks; Liberation Support Movement; Glad Day Press
Date made:
circa 1966
Material/Technique:
Offset lithograph on paper
Dimensions:
H: 22.5 in, W: 17.625 in
Credit line:
Gift of the Terrazas Martin Family on behalf of Margaret Terrazas-Santos
Copyright status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Physical description:
Multicolored offset lithograph on paper.
Content description:
Poster in solidarity with the South West Africa People’s Organization of Nambia, with proceeds to go toward funding a printshop for the cause. Main image is an illustration of two men with rifles, walking crouched down. Test reads "SWAPO: the people armed / August 26, 1966 - Beginning of the armed struggle in Nambia / 'It is by the people's effort that colonialism is routed, / it is by the sweat of the people's brow that nations are built.' -Kwame Nkrumah / South West Africa People’s Organization
Concepts:
anti-colonialism; International Solidarity
Places:
Nambia, South Africa
Persons:
Kwame Nkrumah
Organizations:
South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO)
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