George Da Costa
George S. A. Da Costa (1853–1929) was a Nigerian photographer who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[1] He worked for Allister Macmillan that year, taking photographs for the Red Book of West Africa.[6] Da Costa's work depicts a West Africa that is far from the image of the "dark continent" held by Europeans and Americans at the time.He shows a cosmopolitan society of literati, international merchants, attorneys, politicians, newspaper tycoons and socialites.[4] Da Costa's photographs appeared in The Red Book of West Africa: Historical and Descriptive, Commercial and Industrial Facts, Figures, & Resources (1920, edited by Allister Macmillan).