Have to admit a total ignorance on the African side, but I do know that some of the pix from the USA in the 1870's-80's were badly mismatched eclectic conglomerations of gear cobbled together for s good pic to sell to tourist-as and negligent newspapers who didn't care how inaccurate a pic was as long as it "Looked" right, you know, all "Indian-y", so I assume it must have been somewhat similar in deepest darkest, etc.