Children of Africa – ERNST SCHADE PHOTOGRAPHY

Mozambique, Espungabera.1985. A girl carries her baby brother while preparing a meal at sunset.

Mozambique, Manica province, Espungabera. 1985. A girl carries her little brother on her back while pounding maize.

Mozambique, Manica province, Espungabera.1985. A boy with a worn t-shirt that reads “10 years of Independence 1975-1985”.

Mozambique, Manica province, Espungabera. 1985. A resettled refugee mother and her children in the new settlement of ‘A Luta Continua’. This village had only four adult men left out of 100 inhabitants as most of them were drafted in the army or working abroad.

Mozambique, Sofala province, Macuti beach, Beira. 1988. A family enjoys the breakers of the Indian Ocean.

Mozambique, Manica province, Matsinho. 1988.

Mozambique, Manica province, Chimoio. 1992. Happy children enjoy the first rains after three years of consistent drought.

Mozambique, Manica province, Chimoio. 1992. Children enjoy the first rains after three years of consistent drought.

Mozambique, Manica province, Guro. 1994.

Mozambique, Sofala province, Beira. 1994. A mother prepares a meal in the lounge of the Grand Hotel. Built in the sixties, it hardly served as a hotel and is now being occupied by hundreds of squatters.

Mozambique, Tete province, Angónia, Vila Ulónguè. 1995. A girl collects water from a well.

Mozambique, Manica province, Sanga. 1993. Children walk to a well to collect water.

Mozambique, Manica province, Guro. 1992. A girl proudly shows a basket with maize cobs. It is the first harvest after three consistent years of drought and nearly two decades of civil war.

Mozambique, Manica province, near Chimoio. 1994. Boys harvest cotton.

Mozambique, Manica province, Nhambonda. 1994. While the father prepares the field by burning the weeds before the start of the rainy season, his daughter takes care of her younger brother.

Mozambique, Tete province, Angónia, Vila Ulónguè. 1996. A shepherd boy guards cattle on the Angónia upland plains.

Mozambique, Tete province, Angónia, near Vila Ulónguè. 1996. Shepherd boys guard cattle on the Angónia upland plains.

Mozambique, Tete province, Angónia, Vila Ulónguè. 1995. A shepherd boy takes care of his family’s cattle.

Mozambique. Beira city. 1988. A boy helps a blind man begging in the street next to a restaurant.

Mozambique, Manica province, Chimoio. 1987. Boys play football in the center of the town.

Mozambique, Manica province, Chimoio. 1990. Shadows of children on the wall of a house.

Mozambique, Manica province, Guro. 1992. Displaced children in an improvised playground.

Mozambique, Manica province, Chimoio 1994. Two classes in an overcrowded school.

Mozambique. Beira city. 1989. Blind boys sing in the choir of the Institute for the Visually Handicapped.

Mozambique, Manica province, Guro. 1993. A smiling boy in a maize plot.

Mozambique, Manica province, Amatongas. 1988. A baby amidst belongings of his displaced family that fled the war zone of Gorongosa.

Mozambique, Manica province, Espungabera.1985. A wounded boy on crutches after treatment in the local hospital.

Mozambique, Tete province, Tete. 1995. A wounded boy on crutches stands next to a monumental Baobab tree. The civil war with its landmines caused huge human loss and mutilation.

Mozambique, Sofala province, Casa Banana. 1988. A child imitates war activities with a miniature army tent, trenches and a gun made of wood. Casa Banana used to be the headquarters of the Renamo guerrilla movement that waged a 16-year long civil war.

Mozambique, Tete province, Boroma. 1989. A boy hangs around near the improvised orphanage for refugee children.

Mozambique, Manica province, Bengo. 1991. Displaced and mostly orphaned children queue for a meal at the Bengo refugee reception center.

Mozambique, Sofala province, Vila Paiva de Gorongosa. 1991. Displaced children wait for food distribution.

Mozambique, Manica province, Guro. 1992. Displaced children.

Mozambique, Manica province, Chimoio.1992. Children demonstrate for child rights.

Mozambique, Manica province, Chimoio.1994. The funeral of baby Julio Ornelas, 26 months old.

Mozambique, Manica province, Chimoio.1994-10-31. The funeral of baby Júlio Ornelas, 26 months old.

Mozambique, Manica province, Chimoio.1994. The funeral of baby Júlio Ornelas, 26 months old. Her grandfather closes the coffin.

Mozambique, Manica province, Chimoio.1994. The funeral of baby Júlio Ornelas, 26 months old. Her grandfather says a prayer.

Mozambique, Manica province, Chimoio.1994. The funeral of baby Júlio Ornelas, 26 months old.

Mozambique, Manica province, Chimoio.1994. The funeral of baby Júlio Ornelas, 26 months old. Child mortality in Mozambique is very high.

Guinea-Bissau, Cacheu, 2005. A boy sits on a statue representing Portuguese explorer Nuno Tristão. The statue was removed after independence in 1974 from a square in the capital of Bissau and dumped in remote Cacheu.

Guinea-Bissau, Cacheu. 2005. A girl tries to sell groundnuts on the banks of River Cacheu.

Guinea-Bissau, Bijene. 2005. 13 years old Mbemba Djaló earns some extra cash after school with his little shop on the veranda of an abandoned colonial house.

Guinea-Bissau, Bijene. 2005. Two girls sit and play on a veranda.

Guinea-Bissau, Bijene. 2005. A shy girl runs along the main street of the village.

Guinea-Bissau, K3 village. 2005. 16 years old Amina, mother of two children.

Guinea-Bissau, K3 village, at the outer marshes of the Cacheu River. 2005. A girl collects silt from the river forelands that once were fertile rice fields. The cultivation of rice, the most important staple food in the country, became here impossible due to the salting up of the fields. At home, they filter the silt with water and obtain good quality salt that they sell on the market.

Guinea-Bissau, K3 village, at the outer marshes of the Cacheu River. 2005. Women with babies on their back collect silt from the river forelands that once were fertile rice fields. The cultivation of rice, the most important staple food in the country, became here impossible due to the salting up of the fields. At home, they filter the silt with water and obtain good quality salt that they sell on the market.

Guinea-Bissau, K3 village, at the outer marshes of the Cacheu River. 2005. A boy carries a bucket with silt from the river forelands that once were fertile rice fields. The cultivation of rice, the most important staple food in the country, became here impossible due to the salting up of the fields. At home, they filter the silt with water and obtain good quality salt.

Guinea-Bissau, Bijagós archipelago, Bolama island. 2006. The daughter of Tomás Sampaio.

Guinea-Bissau, Cantanhez,, Canámina village. 2006. Boy carries his study books on his way to school.

Guinea-Bissau, Cantanhez, Cadique village. 2006. Young girl weaves a floormat on the veranda of her parent’s house.

Guinea-Bissau, Cantanhez, Camcote village. 2006. 12 years old Binta Camará.

Guinea-Bissau, Cobiana village near Cacheu. 2013.

Guinea-Bissau, Bijagós, Bolama Island. 2008.

Guinea-Bissau, Cantanhez, Iemberem. 2008. Warming up in the early morning.

Guinea-Bissau, Bubaque Island, 2008. Child plays on the beach.

Guinea-Bissau, Cantanhez, Iemberem. 2008. Grandmother with her grandchild.

Guinea-Bissau, Cantanhez, Iemberem. 2008.

Guinea-Bissau, Cantanhez, Iemberem. 2008. Preparing breakfast in the early morning.

Guinea-Bissau, Cantanhez, Iemberem. 2008.

Guinea-Bissau, Cobiana village near Cacheu. 2013

Guinea-Bissau, Djobel. 2013. Children rest with their dog on the veranda of their family home.

Guinea-Bissau, Bijagós, Bubaque Island, 2008. A young dancer keeps the rich local dance and music tradition alive.