Voices from Within: Photographs of African Children [Hardcover]

A. Olusegun Fayemi (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0971507619 | ISBN-13: 978-0971507616 | Publication Date: June 1999

A book of 145 duotone photographs of children from 12 different countries in Africa, south of the Sahara. It celebrates the lives of ordinary children and their every day life: how they are nurtured and reared, the games they play, their adolescence and growing up years, their education and their role within their families and immediate environment.

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Editorial Reviews

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I thought I was doing well in America until I saw the orgy of happines in these photographs. An authoritative and majestic presentation ....A brilliant orchestra of gumption in imagery and a mastery of the photographic arts. There has been no greater exhibition of the quintessence of the human spirit than one sees in these images. The ancestors must be proud and generation to come will be glad for Fayemi's Voices From Within -- Dr Ugorji O. Ugorji Author "From the belly of the Gods" --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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An authoritative and majestic presentation .... A brilliant orchestra of gumption in imagery and mastery of the photographic arts. There has been no greater exhibition of the quintessence of the human spirit than one sees in these images. The ancestors must be proud, and generations to come will be glad for Fayemi's "Voices From Within" --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Albofa Press (June 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0971507619
• ISBN-13: 978-0971507616
• Product Dimensions: 12.2 x 9.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fayemi.s photographs captures his subjects' spirits., October 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Voices From Within (Paperback)

It is true indeed that pictures don't lie, especially when taken by a master photographer like Olusegun Fayemi. This book brings the beauty and hope of Africa into my living room through the mesmerizing faces of the continent's future. . . its children. This should be a required book in every home.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Superb Book, November 17, 2003

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This review is from: Voices From Within (Paperback)

This book shows the wonderful, warmly human side of the children of Africa south of the Sahara. So often we only hear news of the poverty, AIDS, famine and dissension and don't get to see Africans as people. Everyone should take a look at this book to see what the lives of the children are like, and the natural joy that springs from them as well as their industriousness and love for learning. Keep up the great work, Dr. Fayemi!