Mama Mabinty and Aminata Lahai making Wax Prints - Kenema

photo © by Chad Finer

Mama Mabinty (to the left) lived in our neighborhood where she made tie dyed material and wax prints which she sold locally. Here she is creating one of her wax prints with the help of one of our secondary school students, Aminata Lahai. Photo taken in 1969-70 in the Dama Road section of Kenema.