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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 11600965, member: 8267&quot;]Britain was involved in establishing oil palm plantations in West Africa in the early 1900s (consistent with the date of the style of your photograph). Here is a similar photo showing the staff of a company established in Nigeria -</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/nigeria-marking-on-reverse-african-oil-nuts-staff-epetido-news-photo/1195749043" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/nigeria-marking-on-reverse-african-oil-nuts-staff-epetido-news-photo/1195749043" rel="nofollow">https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/nigeria-marking-on-reverse-african-oil-nuts-staff-epetido-news-photo/1195749043</a></p><p>Nigeria, Marking on reverse: &#039;African Oil Nuts Staff. Epetido, Lagos, Nigeria, B W Africa, May 18th 1921&#039;. Group portrait of European and African staff of the African Oil Nuts Company, 18 May 1921. 2000/098/2/27. (Photo by: Bristol Archives/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)</p><p><br /></p><p>Britain set up a similar plantation in Ghana (then the &quot;Gold Coast&quot;) in the early 1900s -</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;In the British colony of the Gold Coast (now Ghana), an oil palm plantation and mill was established by Alexander Cecil Goff in the early 1900s at a location near the coast.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep15666.4?seq=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep15666.4?seq=1" rel="nofollow">https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep15666.4?seq=1</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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