Mary Nfor Ngwa begins each morning by visiting her cows. She checks their stalls, and she strokes and talks to […]
Irema Badjouma stands in front of a pile of harvested white cotton bolls, bends down to pick up his cotton […]
Fourteen-year-old Tisha Gambo lives in Kurudu, on the outskirts of Abuja, Nigeria. Her daily task is to operate a manual […]
Assana Boubacar walks carefully between two rows of stacked jute bags. Occasionally, she stops and places some dried tobacco leaves […]
Nathalie Kemmogne rubs her client’s scalp vigorously. Once she has rinsed out the shampoo, Ms. Kemmogne walks her client across […]
Christelle Nsing is a successful hairdresser with her own salon. When Ms. Nsing was a young girl, she suffered a […]
Heavy rains near Lake Chad often lead to floods which devastate farmers’ fields. But farmers in northern Cameroon have joined […]
Henri Fotso walks purposefully towards a tap on the side of a water tank. He turns it slowly and water […]
Assana Boubacar walks carefully between two rows of stacked jute bags. Occasionally, she stops and places some dried tobacco leaves […]
(Originally published on January 14, 2013) Pascaline Ndongo bundles some brown-skinned yams into a blue plastic bag. The farmer is […]