Nothing even matters, at all.

Holali in Osu, Accra (Ghana)

ANNIE HSIAO-CHING WANG

UGANDA. 2009. Sarah Namagembe, 42, is a resident of the market. She cooks and sells food for shoppers and cinema-goers.

UGANDA. Amuria. 2008. At the ‘traditional well’ women and children fetch water. They tried to use this water just for laundry and washing up, but as there are so few boreholes and most are broken, many end up using this water for drinking and cooking as well.

The Festival of Mariam Dearit takes place in Keren, Eritrea. Thousands of visitors from all parts of the country come to pray, to worship the Holy Mary, and to enjoy with a picnic, music and dance. The Mariam Dearit shrine is regarded as a holy place, and a source of fertility. This small Catholic shrine to the Virgin Mary is built into a baobab tree said to be 500 years old or more. On May 29, the day of the festival, the statue of the Madonna is carried around in a procession.