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      <image:title>July, 18th is Nelson Mandela Day Worldwide</image:title>
      <image:caption>OWETO TOWNSHIP, SOUTH AFRICA The entire student body at Holy Cross Anglican school joined in singing the Happy Birthday song to Nelson Mandela, who turned 95 years old today.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>OWETO TOWNSHIP, SOUTH AFRICA School groups of children and adults stopped by the Nelson Mandela Museum, a.k.a. Mandela House or Zizwe, on the occasion of Nelson Mandela's 95th birthday.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>July, 18th is Nelson Mandela Day Worldwide</image:title>
      <image:caption>ALEXANDRA TOWNSHIP, SOUTH AFRICA A group of volunteers from a banking concern volunteered to serve food to the elderly at the Nelson Mandela Historic Site here. It was part of the theme of volunteerism throughout the day in this nation and some parts of the world, in recognition and tribute to Nelson Mandela's 95th birthday.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>July, 18th is Nelson Mandela Day Worldwide</image:title>
      <image:caption>ALEXANDRA TOWNSHIP, SOUTH AFRICA More than 100 senior citizens gathered at The Nelson Mandela Heritage Site here to celebrate Mandela Day. Food, and music was provided by a non-profit organization called Tshedbedisano Support Network. A group of volunteers from a banking concern posed in front of the brick bungalow, in which Nelson Mandela lived when he left the Eastern Cape to move to the greater Johannesburg vicinity in the early 40s. The day was defined as a day to commit oneself to volunteer, to help others for at least 67 minutes, in recognition of the sacrifices Mandela made in his struggle with others, against apartheid over the course of 67 years.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>July, 18th is Nelson Mandela Day Worldwide</image:title>
      <image:caption>ALEXANDRA TOWNSHIP, SOUTH AFRICA Thabo Ndlovu (left), 45, and Nyaweni Maphang, 40, were discussing whether Nelson Mandela was recovering or not in a hospital in Pretoria, where he's been convalescing for more than 6 weeks. This is 7th Avenue near Richard Baloyi Street. The Nelson Mandela Heritage Site is also located here on Baloyi. Just a few yards from where these men were standing. The buzz on the street was today here, was mostly about Nelson Mandela's birthday. He turned 95 today.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>July, 18th is Nelson Mandela Day Worldwide</image:title>
      <image:caption>ALEXANDRA TOWNSHIP, SOUTH AFRICA More than 100 senior citizens gathered at The Nelson Mandela Heritage Site here to celebrate Mandela Day. Mr. Mandela turned 95 years old today,Food, and music was provided by a non-profit organization called Tshedbedisano Support Network. Towards the end of this celebration, a brass band arrived and provided free entertainment. It fit the theme of volunteerism in this nation and throughout the world in recognition to the sacrifices Mr. Mandela and other made, to bring an end to apartheid.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>This is the historic Nelson Mandela home site. Located just on the other side of this mural. Mr. Mandela is now recognized as the founding father of South Arica. This the first place Mandela called home in greater Johannesburg after he left his birthplace, the Eastern Cape in the 1940s.</image:title>
      <image:caption>This is the historic Nelson Mandela home site. Located just on the other side of this mural. Mr. Mandela is now recognized as the founding father of South Arica. This the first place Mandela called home in greater Johannesburg after he left his birthplace, the Eastern Cape in the 1940s.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>02/10/02 Kabul, Afghanistan - FOR - Slug: KARZAI ARMY'S - A fledgling Afghanistan army lineup to run through some military drills at National Olympic stadium in Kabul. (digital) Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times</image:title>
      <image:caption>02/10/02 Kabul, Afghanistan - FOR - Slug: KARZAI ARMY'S - A fledgling Afghanistan army lineup to run through some military drills at National Olympic stadium in Kabul. (digital) Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times</image:caption>
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      <image:title>02/06/02 Kabul, Afghanistan - FOR - Slug: UNIV - Several books damaged by the Taliban, some by gunfire, are on display in the lobby of the university. This one turned to pages on birthing was a gynecological book. (digital) Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times</image:title>
      <image:caption>02/06/02 Kabul, Afghanistan - FOR - Slug: UNIV - Several books damaged by the Taliban, some by gunfire, are on display in the lobby of the university. This one turned to pages on birthing was a gynecological book. (digital) Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times</image:caption>
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      <image:title>02/09/02 Kabul, Afghanistan - FOR - Slug: POWS - More than 300 Taliban prisoners of war were released this evening at Arg Palace in a ceremony which President Hamid Karzai invited them to join Afghanistan's National Army. The weather on the grounds of the palace was 20 degrees fahrenheit. (digital) Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times</image:title>
      <image:caption>02/09/02 Kabul, Afghanistan - FOR - Slug: POWS - More than 300 Taliban prisoners of war were released this evening at Arg Palace in a ceremony which President Hamid Karzai invited them to join Afghanistan's National Army. The weather on the grounds of the palace was 20 degrees fahrenheit. (digital) Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times</image:caption>
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      <image:title>WINDHOEK, NAMIBIA Jubilition after the Southwest Peoples Organization was declared the winner of the first non-racial election here.</image:title>
      <image:caption>WINDHOEK, NAMIBIA Jubilition after the Southwest Peoples Organization was declared the winner of the first non-racial election here.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Poll Watcher</image:title>
      <image:caption>BUSHMANLAND, NAMIBIA A poll watcher for the Democratic Turnhall Coalition, the white party that has held on to political power since this part of southern Africa became a proxy region for the apartheid South African government.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>A Woman Looks Out Early Morning Before The Vote</image:title>
      <image:caption>BUSHMANLAND, NAMIBIA A Bush woman wakes on the morning of the date, which her homeland will be significantly transformed from a nation, which, later that same day, will no longer be divided along racial lines.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Early Morning Before The Vote</image:title>
      <image:caption>BUSHMANLAND, NAMIBIA A boy sips water from a cup in a tiny village on the morning of his nation's first non-racial elections.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>A Married Couple Get Ready For The Day</image:title>
      <image:caption>BUSHMANLAND, NAMIBIA This couple woke at daybreak and prepared themselves for the day's tasks ahead, which included voting in the first non-racial election in their nation's history.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Mother And Child On The Day of The Vote</image:title>
      <image:caption>BUSHMANLAND, NAMIBIA A bush woman smokes and breast feeds her child on the morning of the first day of balloting in the first non-racial election in SW Africa's history.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Portrait of Bushman Youth</image:title>
      <image:caption>BUSHMANLAND, NAMIBIA 1989 -Tsumnkwe Boy of Bushmanland, near a polling place during a week of voting in the first non-racial election in his country's history.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Celebrating SWAPO Victory</image:title>
      <image:caption>WINDHOEK, NAMIBIA 1989 - These men provided syncopated clapping as a man danced and jumped after the United Naiton declared that SWAPO, the Southwest African Peoples Party had defeated the Democratic Turnhall Coalition, a satelite political organization which was endorsed by the Nartional Party of South Africa.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Early Morning.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Early Morning.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>A oouple readies for the day.</image:title>
      <image:caption>A oouple readies for the day.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>A couple awakens.</image:title>
      <image:caption>A couple awakens.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>A mother and child, early morning.</image:title>
      <image:caption>A mother and child, early morning.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>A mother poses for photographer with her child</image:title>
      <image:caption>A mother poses for photographer with her child</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Girlfriends</image:title>
      <image:caption>Girlfriends</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Pygmy Woman @ Polling Place</image:title>
      <image:caption>BUSHMANLAND NAMIBIA Bushmanland, Namibia - November 1989 - A woman waits to vote a polling place in this territory.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>In the town square. This was a period of national voting for independence from South Arica and Germany.</image:title>
      <image:caption>In the town square. This was a period of national voting for independence from South Arica and Germany.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>A pollwatcher,in the town square. This was a period of national voting for independence from South Arica and Germany.</image:title>
      <image:caption>A pollwatcher,in the town square. This was a period of national voting for independence from South Arica and Germany.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Boys find shade in town square.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Boys find shade in town square.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>These men talk politics. This was a period of national voting for independence from South Arica and Germany.</image:title>
      <image:caption>These men talk politics. This was a period of national voting for independence from South Arica and Germany.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>They have the same nationality, but their existence is totally different.</image:title>
      <image:caption>They have the same nationality, but their existence is totally different.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>A child stands outside a polling place, near the town square. This was a period of national voting for independence from South Arica and Germany.</image:title>
      <image:caption>A child stands outside a polling place, near the town square. This was a period of national voting for independence from South Arica and Germany.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>A boy and a junked bicycle.</image:title>
      <image:caption>A boy and a junked bicycle.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>This man held a banner with the colors of the Southwest African People's Organizations, SWAPO, which is the party that won the post-colonial elections in Southwest Africa, which is now known as Namibia.</image:title>
      <image:caption>This man held a banner with the colors of the Southwest African People's Organizations, SWAPO, which is the party that won the post-colonial elections in Southwest Africa, which is now known as Namibia.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Children gather and play.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Outside her home as dusk approaches.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Outside her home as dusk approaches.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Nightfall in the area known as Bushmenland.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Nightfall in the area known as Bushmenland.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Kool</image:title>
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      <image:title>Hard Work Talks To Me</image:title>
      <image:caption>OUTHSIDE CHICAGO A man heads home after laboring in the stock yards.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Backstairs View</image:title>
      <image:caption>OUTHSIDE CHICAGO A child looks at the activity in the alley from the backstairs of the tenement where she lives.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>OUTHSIDE CHICAGO This boy was perched on the roof of a garage behind a tenement building in the Bronzeville neighborhood, holding a toy rifle.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>OUTHSIDE CHICAGO A black rabbi, of an orthodox jewish community, sang during a sabbath service.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Friends</image:title>
      <image:caption>OUTHSIDE CHICAGO These 2 fellows were sharing a soda in a community which had postings around, that stated this is Disciples' gang terrority.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Portrait of Boy</image:title>
      <image:caption>OUTHSIDE CHICAGO This boy was watching the Budd Biliken Parade as it passed by in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the Southside of Chicago.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Vacant Lot Baseball</image:title>
      <image:caption>OUTHSIDE CHICAGO Vacant lot baseball has been a very common summer activitiy on Chicago's Southside for decades.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Concert at Jail</image:title>
      <image:caption>COOK COUNTY JAIL, CHICAGO In the mid to late 70s, summer pop music and jazz concerts were held in the inmates recreation yards at Cook County Jail.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4d8bbc1bd5a39/images/Chicago_51.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Girl at Portk Chop Stop</image:title>
      <image:caption>OUTHSIDE CHICAGO Chicago is known for it's barbeque joints. The pork chop shops are plentiful.</image:caption>
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    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4d8bbc1bd5a39/images/No_Smile.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Making a Face</image:title>
      <image:caption>OUTHSIDE CHICAGO A child makes a face as the camera shutter opens.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4d8bbc1bd5a39/images/hare_krishna.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Hari Krishna Sings</image:title>
      <image:caption>NORTHSIDE CHICAGO A Hari Krishna sings and chants on Wells Street in Old Town.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4d8bbc1bd5a39/images/Singing-a-Gospel-Song-Methodone-Clinic-Chicago.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Chicago - Circa June 1974 - A former heroin addict sings a gospel at a methodone clinic during a group therapy session.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Chicago - Circa June 1974 - A former heroin addict sings a gospel at a methodone clinic during a group therapy session.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4d8bbc1bd5a39/images/Pickup_Basketball003.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Kings Park Basketball</image:title>
      <image:caption>OUTHSIDE CHICAGO Young men playing pickup basketball in Martin Luther King Jr. Park on the Southside.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4d8bbc1bd5a39/images/Pickup_Basketball001.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Waterbreak 1</image:title>
      <image:caption>OUTHSIDE CHICAGO A waterbreak during a baskeball pickup game in Marting Luther King Jr park in the Chatham neighborhood on the Southside.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4d8bbc1bd5a39/images/Pickup_Basketball002.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Waterbreak 2</image:title>
      <image:caption>OUTHSIDE CHICAGO A waterbreak during a baskeball pickup game in Marting Luther King Jr park in the Chatham neighborhood on the Southside.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Pool Hall on Cottage Grove 1</image:title>
      <image:caption>OUTHSIDE CHICAGO A pool hall on 7700 south block on Cottage Grove, where some young men played low stakes pool and watch television.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4d8bbc1bd5a39/images/pool_player_chgo_000.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Chicago - Circa July, 1977 - Shooting pool in a hall on Cottage Grove, on the Southside.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Chicago - Circa July, 1977 - Shooting pool in a hall on Cottage Grove, on the Southside.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://oziermuhammad.com/nato-protest-chicago</loc>
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      <image:title>NATO Protest Chicago | Ozier Muhammad Photojournalist</image:title>
      <image:caption>View NATO Protest Chicago by Ozier Muhammad Photojournalist.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Chicago - NATO protesters march in front of Mayor Rahm Emanuel home.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Chicago - NATO protesters march in front of Mayor Rahm Emanuel home.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>NATO Protest Chicago | Ozier Muhammad Photojournalist</image:title>
      <image:caption>View NATO Protest Chicago by Ozier Muhammad Photojournalist.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>NATO Protest Chicago | Ozier Muhammad Photojournalist</image:title>
      <image:caption>View NATO Protest Chicago by Ozier Muhammad Photojournalist.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>NATO Protest Chicago | Ozier Muhammad Photojournalist</image:title>
      <image:caption>View NATO Protest Chicago by Ozier Muhammad Photojournalist.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>NATO Protest Chicago | Ozier Muhammad Photojournalist</image:title>
      <image:caption>View NATO Protest Chicago by Ozier Muhammad Photojournalist.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>NATO Protest Chicago | Ozier Muhammad Photojournalist</image:title>
      <image:caption>View NATO Protest Chicago by Ozier Muhammad Photojournalist.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>NATO Protest Chicago | Ozier Muhammad Photojournalist</image:title>
      <image:caption>View NATO Protest Chicago by Ozier Muhammad Photojournalist.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4d8bbc1bd5a39/images/L1005340.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>NATO Protest Chicago | Ozier Muhammad Photojournalist</image:title>
      <image:caption>View NATO Protest Chicago by Ozier Muhammad Photojournalist.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4d8bbc1bd5a39/images/IMG_5186.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>NATO Protest Chicago | Ozier Muhammad Photojournalist</image:title>
      <image:caption>View NATO Protest Chicago by Ozier Muhammad Photojournalist.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4d8bbc1bd5a39/images/IMG_3024.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>NATO Protest Chicago | Ozier Muhammad Photojournalist</image:title>
      <image:caption>View NATO Protest Chicago by Ozier Muhammad Photojournalist.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>NATO Protest Chicago | Ozier Muhammad Photojournalist</image:title>
      <image:caption>View NATO Protest Chicago by Ozier Muhammad Photojournalist.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>NATO Protest Chicago | Ozier Muhammad Photojournalist</image:title>
      <image:caption>View NATO Protest Chicago by Ozier Muhammad Photojournalist.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>NATO Protest Chicago | Ozier Muhammad Photojournalist</image:title>
      <image:caption>View NATO Protest Chicago by Ozier Muhammad Photojournalist.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4d8bbc1bd5a39/images/L1005348.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>NATO Protest Chicago | Ozier Muhammad Photojournalist</image:title>
      <image:caption>View NATO Protest Chicago by Ozier Muhammad Photojournalist.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://oziermuhammad.com/elections-in-nigeria-1999</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-03-10</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.8</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4d8bbc1bd5a39/images/nigeria_boys.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Campaign Workers for Falae</image:title>
      <image:caption>LAGOS, NIGERIA 1999 - Nigerian boys in makeup with the African Peoples Party (AFP) letters painted on their skiin. The APP challenger Olu Falae lost the election of the presidency of Nigeria to Olusegon Obasanjo.</image:caption>
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    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4d8bbc1bd5a39/images/nigeria_9_a_.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Polling Place Marker</image:title>
      <image:caption>LAGOS, NIGERIA These men are hanging a sign for voters to be informed that a polling place is here. A few days later Nigeria held it's first democratic election.</image:caption>
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    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4d8bbc1bd5a39/images/nigeria_12.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Campaign Rally</image:title>
      <image:caption>LAGOS, NIGERIA 1999 - An African Peoples Party loyalist elicit shouts of supports for their presidential hopefull Olu Falae in a football stadium.</image:caption>
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    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4d8bbc1bd5a39/images/men_voting.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Waiting To Vote</image:title>
      <image:caption>LAGOS, NIGERIA There men are lined up to vote in Nigeria's first democratic election.</image:caption>
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    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4d8bbc1bd5a39/images/nigeria_4a.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>A.P.P. Campaign Supporter</image:title>
      <image:caption>LAGOS, NIGERIA 1999 - A supporter of Olu Falae, a candidate for president who represents the African Peoples Party, at a rally in s football stadium.</image:caption>
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    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4d8bbc1bd5a39/images/nigeria_13.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Voting For A President</image:title>
      <image:caption>LAGOS, NIGERIA An elderly votes casts her ballot in the first open presidential election in Nigeria's history.</image:caption>
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    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4d8bbc1bd5a39/images/Three_Kings.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Presidential Scoundrels</image:title>
      <image:caption>LAGOS, NIGERIA Newly elected president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo (center), with former heads of state and Yacuba Gowan in a jovial mood before Mr.Obasanjo addressed the nation for the first time since his victory.</image:caption>
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    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4d8bbc1bd5a39/images/obasanjo-01_a_.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Addressing The Nation of Nigeria</image:title>
      <image:caption>ABUJA, NIGERIA Mr. Olusegun Obasanjo addresses the nation after winning the presidential electon in Nigeria.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://oziermuhammad.com/abstracts-abroad</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-03-10</lastmod>
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    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4d8bbc1bd5a39/images/RSA_082_a_.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Walter Sisulu and his Wife Albertina</image:title>
      <image:caption>THE TRANSKEI, SOUTH AFRICA Walter and Albertina Sisulu visits Transkei just weeks after his release from Robben Island.</image:caption>
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    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4d8bbc1bd5a39/images/War_and_Conflict033.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Praying for Amadou Diallo</image:title>
      <image:caption>CONAKRY, GUINEA 02-14-1999 - Amadou Diallo, who was killed on February 4th 1999 in Bronx, NY when 4 undercover police officers opened fire on Mr.Diallo when he reached for his wallet. Guineans pray over his remains inside this coffin at mosque in the central area of Conakry. He was 23 years old when he was killed.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4d8bbc1bd5a39/images/War_and_Conflict034.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Diallo's Final Resting Place</image:title>
      <image:caption>LELOUMA, GUINEA 02-16-1999 - Amadou Diallo, who was killed on February 4th 1999 in Bronx, NY when 4 undercover police officers opened fire on Mr.Diallo when he reached for his wallet. He was buried here in this town, near Labe, Conakry, February 16th. He was 23 years old.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4d8bbc1bd5a39/images/War_and_Conflict036.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Saying Goodbye to Amadou Diallo</image:title>
      <image:caption>LELOUMA, GUINEA 02-16-1999 - Amadou Diallo, who was killed on February 4th 1999 in Bronx, NY when 4 undercover police officers opened fire on Mr.Diallo when he reached for his wallet. He was buried here in this town, near Labe, Conakry, February 16th. He was 23 years old.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4d8bbc1bd5a39/images/bus_and_men_Transkei_1989.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Bus Depot</image:title>
      <image:caption>BUTTERWORTH, RSA December 1989 - Mostly men waiting to board a bus in this town, where Nelson Mandela was born. This is the Transkei region.</image:caption>
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