LABOUR OF WOMEN

May the labour of women always yield positive. Agbogbloshie Market. Accra, Ghana.

SCHOOL LATE COMERS AND CORPORAL PUNISHMENT

Late comers are been punished for morning assemble in a school in Nsawam. Eastern Region, Ghana.

OUR SUGAR CANE sellers

OUR SUGAR CANE sellers. 
Wofa Kwadwo have been selling sugar cane for 11 years, six days a week. Equipped with a cane knife, sharpener and hat to protect him from the hot sun. He is among over 60 people who works from dawn to dusk to meet their daily target selling sugar cane on the street of Accra. Ghana.

NAA DATAA TUWA (Chief Rival Baobab tree)

NAA DATAA TUWA, which means chief's rival Baobab tree is a famous site in Yendi where any man caught having sexual affair with the Ya-Na's wives were beheaded to pacify the gods of the land. For it was an abomination to any man within the Dagbon traditional area to see the "thighs" of the chief's wive.
At the site are sacrificial stone and a baobab tree where the heads were dumped.

                                                            The Baobab tree

                                        The hole where the beheading is done.

HORSE AND COW TAILS ON DISPLAY DURING DAMBA FESTIVAL.

At the climax of Damba Festival of the Chiefs and People of Dagbon traditional area in the Northern Region. Ghana. 

The Damba festival is celebrated by the chiefs and peoples of Dagbon Traditional Area in the Northern Region.The festival is celebrated in the Dagomba lunar month of Damba, corresponding to the third month of the Islamic calendar, Rabia al-Awwal. Damba is celebrated to mark the birth and naming of Muhammed.

MODERN SLAVERY

From Geoffrey Buta, Tamale.

It is heart breaking to see and to know that Parents think more about money than the welfare of their children. This is a harsh reality to know that this is happening around the world and specifically in Tamale, where some parents allow their kids as young as four years to be selling in the rain in the name of poverty.

Child labor in Ghana presents great challenges, although the Children’s Act provides ages for admission to employment, proscribes labor which exploits the child by deprivation of health, education or development, working children are a common phenomenon, especially in Northern Region and its rural communities.

More children between the ages of 5-17years are engaged in economic activity where hawking shepherding of cattle and sheep, fishing, crop farming are the common child labor activities in the urban areas.

Hawking among School going children especially girls in the Tamale Metropolis is springing up rapidly as the life of such children are exposed to road accident, child abuse and other dangerous activities.

Some of these girls sell from morning to 9 pm in the night as shown in the photograph.

Most of these girls were photographed during school going hours where schools have resume who should be in school, were seen hawking on the streets.

Some of the children had different stories to tell when I interviewed them.

These children are among 27 million people in slavery in the world who have been engaged in modern day slavery who deserve the same right, dignity and respect in their lives to enjoy the basic human right.

Many of these children have been trick by force promises, of good education a better job, only to find they are forced to work and abuse.

The girl above don't even know the price of roasted groundnut she is selling. 

                                                               a little girl selling in the night

                                                some young girls selling yam

 Eleven-year-old Ajara, who lives with her parents in the lamashiegu, said she only hawk after school in order to support her parents to cater for their school needs.

These children are among 27 million people in slavery in the world who have been engaged in modern day slavery who deserve the same right, dignity and respect in their lives to enjoy the basic human right.

                                                a boy on school uniform selling

My October Wedding

As each week passes, I love what I do. I realized 70% of my enjoyment comes from the work as a photographer. Far better than the daily interaction with people and the challenge of the job is the lifestyle photography gives.