“The Jamaare river is one of the most must see places in this beautiful community. Located along the outskirts of the community with beautiful sand beaches, the river Jamaare is a beauty to behold. Watching the sunset along it’s banks is a memory you’ll cherish for ever. I took this photo of children bathing in the waters, I came to take a walk on the beach side and discovered the waters had overflowed it’s banks. The kids beckoned to have their photos taken as they took turns showing swimming tricks and competing in water games.”“The Ethiopian timket (Epiphany) is a holiday celebrated throughout Ethiopia. On this festival people from all around will gather around churches to be part of this event.” Samson Gts SileshiProcessed with VSCO with c1 presetI wanted to speak about art through this images, I made use of colours, rhythm, and vibrance. I put together a team, people who were very excited to embark on this journey with me, and collectively we created this. Its the same way with inspiration, some people say it comes to you but I honestly think this is wrong, we go out there and search for what inspires us, making creative choices.“This is an expression of a relationships between average African folks living a pure African routine. Africa survives on agriculture. Our land is enriched by nature. Africa is blessed with rich soil for cultivation which has contributed more than 70% to the living standards of her citizens. More than 70% of the continent’s population are directly or indirectly involved in farming. For instance, my state, Benue State is considered the food basket of the Nation in Nigeria.” Ngorngor Fleetman Thomas“My mother has always been there for me. Never wavering in support of my little goals. Never failing to provide no matter how long it took. Touching my being with words, advice, prayers and physically. Slowly, she moulds me to be the best man that I can be. An other’s touch is golden, a mother’s touch is one with the creator!”“Imagining I’ve never been there before and that I’m seeing everything for the first time is among the things that keep me inspired. The shot was taken at the Kilifi old ferry. Personally, i take photographs because its a thrill to me, i also feel the need to document my surroundings.” Tommie Ominde“Tree planting has been part of my life for a long time. I took this image while hiking in Nyeri and I want to remind everyone all over the world that we need to preserve our environment. Plant trees!” Wesley Kagema“Little Big Shots is a photo documentary of children entrepreneurs. In relation to the American TV series anchored by Steve Harvey, I decided to document the children in my area. Some of them are child hawkers, some are cobblers and some, street footballers. This is a photo of a child cobbler in my school. He, alongside his father, mends shoes in the campus. He’s really exceptional at what he does. He loves to charge high prices, but he’s a sweet kid. I shot this one while he was arguing with his friend that came to visit him at his shop.I can’t recall what they were arguing about but they were really animated. Little big shots is all about children that we fail to see. Their stories, their beautiful conversations, their potentials, their abilities and entrepreneurial skills. There are some I know that deserve an episode on Steve Harvey’s show.” Nnebuifé Kwubéi“People use religious institutions such as churches and mosques to ask their gods for their respective needs. They use these institutions as a ‘trusted messengers'”. Abenezer Endrias“The fisherman’s walking boots. Yes! They use it to walk on water. In the community of Otto-Awori at Jetty street, some of the locals partake in fishing and other aquatic related activities. This is the communal shoe rack where the locals keep their boots; Their walking boots, the boots they use to walk on water.”“We’ve got goals we’re trying to reach, and ‘overtime’ is the only way to do it and ‘champion’ is the only thing we are trying to be.”“These are the little hands behind the bags of corn, rice, millet etc that flood the Jamaare market on weekends. Little boys like Umar cultivate small portions of land that produce enough for home and business. The future of agriculture are these ones.”“The Easter (fasika) rains as the permanent Christian holiday in Ethiopia, GENNA nonetheless remains a major religious and cultural event drawing crowds to churches throughout the country especially the ancient Lalibella Church where crowds fill a large mass of the area. Pilgrims linger at Lalibela’s famed Saint Giorgis rock church after many others have returned home to feast. The towns 11 rock-hewn churches are said to have been carved with the help of angels over 800 years ago.” Ammanuel Habtam“Educational Blindfold If life is a great teacher, then living is a big Institution ‘Life’ is an open institution filled with scholars, it is up to you to get ‘schooled while schooling.’ Most people go to school just because of title, because they want to please their parents, or because they want to prove a point, but to who? You need to know this: the word ‘school’ is a place where you learn how to earn, it is not necessarily the four walls of a building, it’s life in general. We have tons of teachers who only care about their monthly salary, not to impact knowledge on students.”Description: Juma Owiri, 39 (left) and Onesmus Mapundo from Busike village, which lies at the Kenya-Uganda border town of Busia, with a harvest of finger millet on July 2nd, 2018. “The gods have been on our side this season”, says Juma The farmers in the region have been encouraged by the Government and non-governmental organizations to plant indigenous crops which are resistant to rampant climatic changing conditions, diseases and pests. This is in line with the achievement of food security as a global goal by the year 2030.Other crops encouraged are Millet, sorghum and finger millet which are tropically adapted.“The war will change many things in art and life, and among them, it is to be hoped, many of our own ideas as to what is, and what is not, ‘intellectual.'”“These are kids in my neighbourhood of Meatu, Tanzania playing games. In our country when the children are back from school or during the weekend or holiday they always hang together to engage much on their games or sport without regard to family status, or whether rich or poor. There is no discrimination when children want to play. As you can see the kid with bicycle is from a rich family but when it comes to the issue of gathering and playing, family status and background is not regarded.” Revocatus Meney“These are the stories I want to tell. Boys playing football. Simple? It’s way more than that. It’s an ingrained love for a game. It’s a passion. It’s a community. It’s a medicine.”Description: Juma Owiri, 39 from Busike village, which lies at the Kenya-Uganda border town of Busia, with his harvest of finger millets on July 2nd, 2018. “The gods have been on our side this season”, says Juma The farmers in the region have been encouraged by the Government and non-governmental organizations to plant indigenous crops which are resistant to rampant climatic changing conditions, diseases and pests. This is in line with the achievement of food security as a global goal by the year 2030.Other crops encouraged are Millet, sorghum and finger millet which are tropically adapted.“Moody sunday evening in the streets of old town Mombasa. I take photos because I love how rapidly things are changing (both positively and negatively). I also do it to try and reveal to the world how beautiful the place really is. Having been born and raised here, I feel its only right if I give something back, and what better way to do it than through taking photographs.” Tommie Ominde“A warrior fights with courage, not with anger. When there’s no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”“It was such big moment for all Ethiopians and Eritreans because we were welcoming our brother and sisters who share the same culture, language, holidays and so on.We were apart almost for 20 Years. Peace is costly because it is difficult to forget yesterday’s losses and struggles, but peace is worth the expense. It means a lot for the Horn of Africa and it also teaches many lessons to the world; forgetting everything that has happened between two peoples for peace and unity; for a better Horn of Africa. It means a lot I think now everyone is happy because of their dreams to go Eritrea, or the dreams of Eritreans coming to Ethiopia have become a reality. Thanks to our prime minister for making our dream a reality.”“On my travels as a photographer, I have had people tell me amazing stories about themselves, others however, have there stories told by there faces. The latter fascinates me more.” ‘Dare Amodu“These beautiful paper creations is created all over Bissau since last week. This morning people are on their way to decorate the graves of the loved ones in the cemeteries.” @bissau_bonito“Industrialisation. Many youth have realised that “The end point of life is to be successful” You ought to do everything positively possible to avoid being broke. Get skilled up. In this time, nobody wants to hire you just because you graduated with good grades, Rather you get hired because you can add value to a company.” Rowland Emelike“This picture shows a Zambia woman preparing a meal in the late afternoons. The mortar and pestle is a vital basic of the African kitchen. For the African home cook, the mortar and pestle is where you get things done. It would be unimaginable to try to cook, in some households without it. It can do anything from crushing raw hot pepper and ginger to pounding cassava, maize or groundnuts. It is extremely handy especially for areas without electricity.”“In Jinja, a child gazes into a church, during a wedding ceremony.” Timothy Latim“I decided to go to Tanchort in a journey through time to the old past where there is no way and no specific worlds – no drinking water, no electricity, no internet – deep in the Western Sahara to try to capture the true moments of happiness, colour, taste and reality. Of the cities and disappeared from the list of human feelings, was the first picture. Between the past and the present, where there is no definition of time and no feelings. The Tanshort Oasis is located between the golden sands in the centre of the state of Adrar, Mauritania at the centre of the Sahara, which reaches a temperature in the middle of the day to above 40 degrees Celsius. Where the hospitality and warm hospitality of the original Arab is dates and camel milk and the meeting with (Atai) traditional Mauritanian coffee. Where children and men sponsor camels, which are the basis of their economy of transportation and food, where they go every day in a search trip of 20 to 15 km to search for wells for water and places with plant.
In this pictures landscape, where villages with a population of tens of people live on the edge of the deserts, I have tried to reveal a society that remains a link between the ancient past and the present, with their habits and traditions, with the certainty that this type of custom And villages must come the day that will inevitably disappear one day.” Elwely Vall“This picture was taken in Tanzania. A son witnesses his father and mother arguing about the difficult economic situation while promoting their coffee to a customer. The sold is also self-employed. He resells the bottles he finds.” Victor_Sanga“This picture was taken in 2017 on an assignment in Kilifi, Kenya. Actually my main focus was to take pictures of the school labs that were under construction for the project sponsors and also capture reactions of the students in regards to the same. On the way this lovely woman captured my attention with her energy. She actually didn’t want me to take pictures of her because she was afraid of how the men she was working with on site would think of her but with a little convincing she gave in to only this one picture that melts my heart. With all said she made me appreciate myself as an African lady that has a quiet confidence that screams loud, humble but strong, stable but rebellious, giving but not naive.” Rose Kambua“This is African! Let’s embrace our own cultural heritage and traditional values. Let’s wear our own!” Stevens Sope“It is like kids know it all! ‘For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.’ Be happy like kids!” Michael Boakye“He is a boy that lives around the shores of Lake Langano. I was on a trip there and he and his brother fish every day for personal consumption or to sell to visitors. How he fishes was what caught my eye: only a small hook attached to a string, a bait and that long stem. With no modern tools he fished all the we can see!”“With temperatures reaching 105° most days in Jamaare, Bauchi State, Nigeria. It is a blessing that this big juicy water melon balls are available for all. To do you one better, everyone can afford them with prices ranging from N30 to N200. Splash!!!“ James Ikpe“After taking a few shots of him without him realising I approached him and he explained to me how he always uses his trap to get some few fish, but was wondering why nothing is working out for him that day. I learnt a deep lesson from his story and realise that in life each day may not be as good as the last, and there may be a day where things may not work as expected. I encouraged him and continued with my walk.”Processed with VSCO with p5 preset“Amidst your own discomfort, you gave my comfort. Even with tears in your eyes, you were able to make me laugh. In times of chaos, I found serenity in your arms. When the whole world shut me out, your embrace was always welcoming to me.”“I took this in Jamestown, Ghana. We took a walk by the beach and decided to pass the streets of British Accra (popularly known as Jamestown) to take pictures of street art and life. Luckily I was able to find people playing street soccer in an incomplete building structure filled with African murals. Here, Jamestown fishermen take a break from a days work at sea to play a quick game of street soccer” Hilton Mitchell“You will be surprised how skilled a shoe cobler on street is, how cheerful and committed they are to their jobs. This is a father and husband to many, making ends meet on a daily basis. Art can be found everywhere. This is Art, love it! Appreciate it!”In her eyes
Lies despair and sorrow
In her eyes
Lack opportunities for tomorrow
In her eyes
Hurt and neglect are accustomed
And tears is a custom
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Hope…“His name is Fitalehu, he is 26, he moved to Addis a while back to support his family back home by selling books on the streets of Addis. As we had a chat he told me all about the struggles he faced as he carried the books in his hand and backpack. Just like him there are lots and lots of people who make a living on the streets of Addis by selling books.” Tewodros Girma“She is a mother of four. She sells yam to support her husband, children, and saves some so that when times are hard for her husband and he can’t pay school fees for her kids she will be able to finance them.” @keyysmedia“These are kids from Mpigi district in Katwe Village trying to collect water for home use. Katwe village is found in Uganda around Mpigi district. As I was trying to do some nature photography I met these two young boys at a stream. I had a brief conversation with them and they told me about their life story. They live with their grandparents and its their duty to collect water every day that is to be used at home. And also to look after the cow’s at home.”“The river and the falls itself is noted to have great potentials for sport fishing and wildlife viewing. It has also been said that there’s an area down in the river channels where one can find crocodiles living in their natural habitat”“That moment when you feel the presence of God” Lila HabeshaProcessed with VSCO with p5 preset“He’s a ‘fundi’. He’s crafting a ‘dhow’ boat, which is a local boat very typical of Zanzibar. He puts cotton soaked in oil in between planks to make them waterproof. These people do amazing work!”“My name is Zeamanuel Abera, art enthusiast based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The photo is taken in mursi tribe in one of the villages in the Omo Valley. There 16 tribes in general in the Omo Valley, which are farmers and Pastoralists. A man can have 7 wives depending on how many livestock he owns.”‘When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that’s happened that day just melts away’ Ruth Kenyanjui“This is a picture of a native Tanzanian woman in the Sumve village. It shows the culture and heritage of the local area, which has its own form of dress and language! The picture was taken when a woman was delighted at the rainy season which preempts the arrival of the farming period”“She laughs ‘I cannot take pictures’ I say ‘nobody can’. She smiles and I click! Peace is the daughter of the resident clergyman in the compound where my banku is located. She is the first of 3 daughters. her other sisters are Mercy and Wisdom. They all rear poultry here at home and own 3 dogs, one each. They are totally wonderful people.” James Ikpe“Each and every day their hard work never ceases: working by all means to get food on the table for the family and support other financial related demands and request, and making sure they are always strong pillars at every corner of life regardless of the situation and circumstances. Teaching every young soul discipline takes care and advice. The love and protection they provide proves that the power of leadership will always be important within families. With the hardship and pains they come across in all diverse circumstances, they still find ways to put a smiles on faces. Ayekoo to all fathers for their immense love and support they always provide to the family. God bless all fathers.”“It was shot in a small Fulani settlement after sunset. The woman in the picture is relaxing in front of her Hut after the day’s hustle (hawking Fura da nunu – millet and locally fermented milk). She sits watching the children play in the open space.”“As a small boy growing up in a town known for fishing, he normally hunts fish with his trap. Unfortunately for him one afternoon when I was having my normal walk, he tried all means to to get a few fish as he normally does but this time to no avail. All his tricks and techniques never work out for him. But fortunately for me, I was able to capture that moment on his face whiles he was wondering what possibly could the cause be.”Processed with VSCO with hb2 preset“This one was taken in one of the churches of Lalibela in North Ethiopia, rich in Spirtuality and ancient history; here are two priests instructing a Deacon.”“Sometimes it is important to choose what we read as books help us to enhance ourselves. There are also books that make us less blind to what is beside us, that will make us think critically.” Nati Tad“Fulani herdsmen or Fulani pastoralists are nomadic or semi nomadic herders whose primary occupation is raising livestock. The herdsmen are found in countries such as Nigeria, Niger, Senegal, Guinea, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Benin, Côte d’Ivoire and Cameroon. In Nigeria, the livestock supplied by the herdsmen provide a bulk of the beef consumption in the country.” Chibuikem James“The picture was taken, Korem, Hawassa City where Mulugeta Meheret, Adane Girma, Shimeles Bekele and others used to play. These guys got us through African cup of nations after 31 years.”“The sidama house is one of the most amazing architectural achievements, being made with low cost and in a small amount of time. I’ve been lucky enough to witness its construction.”“An Ethiopian boy reading a bible in Debre Libanos.” Ammi KifleProcessed with VSCO with c8 preset“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. Three kids at the shore willing to conquer the world. Yes we can!” Michael Boakye“One of the mother’s happy moments with a girl in the small village of Mwanza Tanzania is a picture of how she is doing what she would do for her baby.” @hans_photographyThree boys from Hamer, Ethiopia spend their morning keeping their sheep and playing with their friends. Processed with VSCO with g3 preset“She believed she could do she did.”“A sudden calmness arouses with the sound of the waves as they crash into the boat, as the boat is guided by the ocean breeze. They are free at sea and will be Sailing the seas for eternity.” “Our life will get better if we hold on to hope! His name is Daniel. His taking a fresh breath and peaceful air beside the flower that represent the new year. He wishes that he will experience ONE Ethiopia more than ever. I wish him all the best.”Processed with VSCO with c1 preset“My work is not only to protect the people in Bama, but to… Alhaji Muhammad lives in Bama, Nigeria, he’s a police officer. He specialises in making shoes for both male and female. Alhaji was in Bama for the past three years, he trained more than hundreds of children on how to make shoes and sell it to their communities. He also stated that his mission in Bama is not only to protect the life and properties of the people, but share his own skills.”“Everyday, Niyi happily shells melon outside his dad’s house. He is still in school and hopes to shell his way out of the village soon.““This picture was captured in Akwa Ibom state in Nigeria. It’s very common in the state to see the women more involved in the farm work than the men. They have a kind of unrelenting strength, which drives them to do all they can in order to make ends meet. I live around my school, and I see these women every day, going to and returning from their farms with lots of load, considerably too heavy for their age. I just get to admire admire their drive, hard work and persistent minds.” Judeson AtaisiProcessed with VSCO with m3 preset“Passion and my love for art is being able to tell a defining story with every image. This picture of the children is about kids living a hard life with little hope for a better future, gazing from afar that there’s a future for them someday out there.” Dominique Fofanah“Nii Adjabeng Ankrah II the Traditional ruler of Ga Dade Ban-Naa ( Otublohum-Ga traditional area) sprinkles Kpokpoi on the streets of Accra during the Homowo Festival. Homowo is derived from two Ga words ‘homo” meaning hunger and ‘wo’ meaning to hoot at. Homowo therefore means hooting at hunger. According to legend, during the process of migration, the Ga people experienced famine and severe hunger. However, they mustered up courage to till the land, planted corn and called upon Ataa-Naa Nyonmo, the Dzema Wodzi, Wodzi, and Sisadzi, the ancestral spirits through libation to bless the farms to yield in abundance. In response to their prayers, rain followed, the crops grew and yielded in abundance. Every year during August, the Homowo is celebrated to commemorate that day when hunger was defeated.”