Original title reads, "A class at a teacher training project in ibadan, where Nigerian teachers get instruction in academic subjects and in teaching techniques from Americans from Ohio University. There are seven U.S. staff members in elementary education, and three in commercial education. In the pictures, teacher (Miss) Mary McDonough teaches a c...

This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for Life magazine and traveled to Africa from August 18, 1959 to December 20, 1959.

Original title reads, "A class at a teacher training project in ibadan, where Nigerian teachers get instruction in academic subjects and in teaching techniques from Americans from Ohio University. There are seven U.S. staff members in elementary education, and three in commercial education. In the pictures, teacher (Miss) Mary McDonough teaches a c...

This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for Life magazine and traveled to Africa from August 18, 1959 to December 20, 1959.

Original title reads, "A class at a teacher training project in ibadan, where Nigerian teachers get instruction in academic subjects and in teaching techniques from Americans from Ohio University. There are seven U.S. staff members in elementary education, and three in commercial education. In the pictures, teacher (Miss) Mary McDonough teaches a c...

This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for Life magazine and traveled to Africa from August 18, 1959 to December 20, 1959.

Original title reads, "A class at a teacher training project in ibadan, where Nigerian teachers get instruction in academic subjects and in teaching techniques from Americans from Ohio University. There are seven U.S. staff members in elementary education, and three in commercial education. In the pictures, teacher (Miss) Mary McDonough teaches a c...

This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for Life magazine and traveled to Africa from August 18, 1959 to December 20, 1959.

Original title reads, "A class at a teacher training project in ibadan, where Nigerian teachers get instruction in academic subjects and in teaching techniques from Americans from Ohio University. There are seven U.S. staff members in elementary education, and three in commercial education. In the pictures, teacher (Miss) Mary McDonough teaches a c...

This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for Life magazine and traveled to Africa from August 18, 1959 to December 20, 1959.

Original title reads, "A class at a teacher training project in ibadan, where Nigerian teachers get instruction in academic subjects and in teaching techniques from Americans from Ohio University. There are seven U.S. staff members in elementary education, and three in commercial education. In the pictures, teacher (Miss) Mary McDonough teaches a c...

This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for Life magazine and traveled to Africa from August 18, 1959 to December 20, 1959.

Original title reads, "A class at a teacher training project in ibadan, where Nigerian teachers get instruction in academic subjects and in teaching techniques from Americans from Ohio University. There are seven U.S. staff members in elementary education, and three in commercial education. In the pictures, teacher (Miss) Mary McDonough teaches a c...

This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for Life magazine and traveled to Africa from August 18, 1959 to December 20, 1959.

Original title reads, "A class at a teacher training project in ibadan, where Nigerian teachers get instruction in academic subjects and in teaching techniques from Americans from Ohio University. There are seven U.S. staff members in elementary education, and three in commercial education. In the pictures, teacher (Miss) Mary McDonough teaches a c...

This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for Life magazine and traveled to Africa from August 18, 1959 to December 20, 1959.

Original title reads, "A class at a teacher training project in ibadan, where Nigerian teachers get instruction in academic subjects and in teaching techniques from Americans from Ohio University. There are seven U.S. staff members in elementary education, and three in commercial education. In the pictures, teacher (Miss) Mary McDonough teaches a c...

This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for Life magazine and traveled to Africa from August 18, 1959 to December 20, 1959.

Original title reads, "A class at a teacher training project in ibadan, where Nigerian teachers get instruction in academic subjects and in teaching techniques from Americans from Ohio University. There are seven U.S. staff members in elementary education, and three in commercial education. In the pictures, teacher (Miss) Mary McDonough teaches a c...

This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for Life magazine and traveled to Africa from August 18, 1959 to December 20, 1959.