“…no one can ignore the sheer delight of the collection, the beauty of lives that take wings under the photographer’s respectful eye. …a narrative of the many faces of African female culture and its symbol-producing activities.”

Tuzyline Jita Allan
Professor of English
Baruch College, City University of New York
New York, NY

Grandmother
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1997

“In a striking example of judiciousness, balance, harmony, and intelligence, Olusegun Fayemi’s Windows to the Soul: Photographs Celebrating African Women is a book of immense importance. The writing and the photography are extraordinary in qulaity, clarity, and lucidity. African women rarely have been shown in such splendid fsshion. I recommend this book for its classical portrayals of the diversity, beauty, culture, and spirit of African women.”

Professor Molefi Kete Asante
President, Africa Writers’ Endowment Foundation
Author, Scattered to the Wind

Radiologist
Teaching Hospital, Kampala, Uganda

Balance
Hawking on a market day
Mopti, Mali, 1993

“…awe-inspiring book, a photographic labor of love… much needed text on African women, who are much abused by media and negative propaganda. The stupendous photographs are given context by the powerful and thoughtfully creative poems submitted by both women and men. This work is a must for the library of every educational and media institution in the US and the world, just as it would benefit homes and private collections. A perfect coffee-table book, Windows to the Soul: Photographs Celebrating African Women is overpowering for what it offers to the eye and what it says and teaches thereby.”

Molara Ogundipe, writer, essayist, poet
Professor of English, African, Cultural and Gender Studies
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
Author Recreating Ourselves: African Women and Critical Transformations

“What is fascinating and refreshing about Olusegun Fayemi’s collection is that it made the African woman whole. It captures the complexity, integrity, humanity, wholeness and wholesomeness of African women. …It is truly a treat to have Olusegun Fayemi as our guide as he executes the monumental but necessary task of opening the windows to the soul of the African woman.”

Obioma Nnaemeka
Professor of French, Women’s Studies and African/African American Studies
Director of Women’s Studies
Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN

Arriving Home
Lagos, Nigeria, 1998

Laundry Day
Niaga, Senegal, 1993

“…Dr Olusegun Fayemi’s Windows to the Soul: Photographs Celebrating African Women, a sequel to his remarkable Voices From Within: Photographs of African Children, grounds us with its timely, heartwarming, affirming principles about women’s lives. … a book of stunning photographs of healthy African women … stressing an understated aspect of African life that makes the continent resilient – the strong, buoyant, industrious women who provide the inimitable foundation of an up-and-coming continent. … Africa needs this book and men like Fayemi to ensure gender parity and steady progress.”

Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi
Professor of Literature, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
Author Africa Wo/Man Palava: The Nigerian Novel by Women