Ganvie, Benin, with some 3,000 stilted buildings and a population of 20,000-30,000 people, may be the largest "lake vllage" in Africa. In Ganvie, the population lives exclusively from fishing, building houses on stilts in and next to Lake Nokoue. Because the Dan-Homey religion prohibited attacks on communities living in the water, the village of Ganvie dates back to the 16th or 17th century, when it was built to protect people from slavery.
Hey, I just wanted to let you all know that in the process of my applying for a listing on ephotos.com, ephotos asked to interview me, and one of my photos from Benin is now gracing the ephotos front page for the next 2 months! Ephotos is the brainchild of Chi Modu, a Nigerian-American who decided to make his contribution to the photography community by creating a website to help promote other photographers – be sure to read his terrific statement in the “About” section of the site. Any of you photographers out there can also apply for a listing…
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