Balancing Acts

 Photographs from West Africa

A book of captivating and evocative black and white images of Africans on the West coast of the continent, it is divided into five sections:

• Urban versus Rural living
• The Blessings of Children
• Life along the River Niger
• Markets
• Celebration

Fayemi presents images that perhaps ony a West African indigene can capture and interpret. He freezes memorable moments as West Africans continue to attempt to balance the various complexities of their lives - rural vs urban, the religious vs the secular, childhood vs adulthood and celebration of both life and death.

In the text that introduces each of the five sections of the book, Fayemi speaks from the heart as well as from the head as he presents facts and figures about the peoples of and places in West Africa.

Returning from the spring
Ifaki Ekiti, Nigeria, 1982

Sling Shot
Ifaki Ekiti, Nigeria, 1985

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Laundry Day
Niaga, Senegal, 1992

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