Work - Margaret Courtney-Clarke

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"Dappled Shade". !Uoa !Ga-ǀham and her grandson take a nap under the shade of a tree. Blouberg Resettlement Farm (ownership contested), Omaheke Region. October 2019

When Tears Don’t Matter

"Life is Them". Emsi Tjambiru and Beverly Tjivinde dance on the road near their craft stall to flag down tourist busses. C35 Khorixas district, Namibia. October 2017

Cry Sadness into the Coming Rain

"Noah’s Ark in a Sandstorm"(Mobiles by Moreen ǂEichas). ǂGaingu Conservancy, Namibia. July 2018

Noah’s Ark in a Sandstorm

Diptych: "The Blues". While Marta Rooinasie lives out her day in the nearby Klein Spitzkoppe digging for tourmalines, her Africanis dogs Skrikkie and Wagter (Afrikaans: ‘Little Fright and Guard’) watch over her home, poultry and pigeons; Two years later Marta moves closer to a town where she can send her children to school. Namibia. January 2015 / December 2016

"Melody under the Sun". Gottlieb (“God is love”) ǂKhatanab ǁGaseb aka Die vioolman (The Violinist) is a self-taught musician who lives in a remote outpost beneath the Dȃures granite massif. He earns a living from playing the violin at community weddings and funerals. Tsiseb Conservancy, Namibia. December 2014

Ndebele - Margaret Courtney-Clarke

African Canvas - Margaret Courtney-Clarke

Imazighen - Margaret Courtney-Clarke

A woman and her child sit through a police raid in which plastic sheets and sticks used as shelter are confiscated in KTC, one of nine townships that make up Nyanga (Xhosa for Moon). Cape Town, 1979

South Africa 1969-1983

‘Home guards’—South African backed policemen guised in civilian clothes—reveal a hand grenade to mark their authority amidst rising opposition in the town of Oshakati in the northern area known as Ovamboland. 1979

South West Africa (Namibia) 1978-1983

Maya Angelou in her home, surrounded by portraits of her mother, Vivian Baxter (top right); her grandmother Annie Henderson (top left) and her great grandmother Kentucky Shannon. Winston-Salem, N.C., USA. 1998

La Ciociaria - Margaret Courtney-Clarke

Coretta Scott King, Dr. Maya Angelou, Professor Eleanor Traylor, Bahamas 1998