---
title: 'Wakamba''s: die größten Feinde Stanley''s und Emin Pascha''s (show poster, c. 1890)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/wakamba-stanley-emin-show-poster-1890/
description: 'Landscape show poster for the Redouten-Saal: two circular portraits, ''Mr.'
section: Collection
---

[Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)

**Content note:** Colonial-era human-display show poster billing East African performers as 'enemies' of European explorers This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Wakamba's: die größten Feinde Stanley's und Emin Pascha's (show poster, c. 1890)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/wakamba-stanley-emin-show-poster-1890.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/wakamba-stanley-emin-show-poster-1890.jpg)

# Wakamba's: die größten Feinde Stanley's und Emin Pascha's (show poster, c. 1890)

Landscape show poster for the Redouten-Saal: two circular portraits, 'Mr. Stanley' and 'Emin Pascha', flank the headline billing 'Wakamba's, the greatest enemies of Stanley and Emin Pasha', above a staged scene of spear- and shield-bearing men in leopard-print skirts before thatched huts. The tell: the fame of two well-known explorers is borrowed to sell the performers, who are billed by their relation to them (transfer).

## Text on the object

Original (German) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Redouten-Saal.
Wakamba's,
die grössten Feinde Stanley's und
Emin Pascha's.
[portrait labels:] MR. STANLEY / EMIN PASCHA
[imprint at lower left:] Lith. v. Adolph Friedländer HAMBURG Tholstr 83/85
[lower right:] № 112.
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Redouten-Saal. Wakambas, the greatest enemies of Stanley and Emin Pasha. [portrait labels: Mr. Stanley / Emin Pasha] [Lithographed by Adolph Friedländer, Hamburg, Tholstrasse 83/85] No. 112.
```

Imprint read at 960 px; street number partly uncertain.

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