“a different picture of the continent from what most of the world has seen…captures the simplicity of growing up in Africa.”
                            CNN International

“ ...a welcome antidote to the bleak western academic treatise on African under-development… highlights the resilience and inner strength of African children.”
                                   Hisham Aidi
                                               africana.com

Pounding for fun
Addis Ababa, 1997

“Fayemi cares for the continent and this love came through in the photographs of these children… there is the dignity and the drama of the poor but not the drama and the dignity of their poverty...he has produced a genuinely pan-African aesthetic statement.”                         
                      Prof. Nguigi wa Thiong’o
                      New York University, NY

“These photographs are a tribute to the laughter of the African child; they are also a salute to the enduring love of the African mother. What delightful photographs!...truly uplifting.”
                             Prof. Ali Mazrui, Director
                             Institute of Global Cultural Studies
                             Binghampton University, NY

Decamhare, Eritrea, 1997

“...a different view of Africa through the lens… the photographs appeal to a sense of nostalgia, even in observers who have never visited the continent and are not of African descent.”
                                      Jersey Journal
                                      Jersey City, NJ

Open air classroom
Epworth, Zimbabwe, 1996

“...magnificent photographs...informative text...should be made available to as many of our young people as possible.”
                 Wilma Grey, Asst’ Director
                 Newark Public Library
                 Newark, NJ

Epworth, Zimbabwe, 1994

“Fayemi does not only produce a book that  decolonizes the image of Africa or the African child, he does produce a book that celebrates life – affirming dimensions of the African psyche and praxis. The children show bright eyes, that dramatize hope and potential.”
                                           Prof. Sekoni, Director
                                           Center for the Study of Culture & Languages
                                           Lincoln University, PA

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