In the town of Djibo in northern Burkina Faso, a Fulani wedding has taken place. Friends and family of the bride carry gifts and possessions – pots and pans, blankets, textiles, decorative flowers, and other items – from the bride’s home to her new home with her husband. Surprisingly, many of these gifts are [...]
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So I’m a little more than 1/3 of the way through processing the images from my November 2010 trip to Burkina Faso, West Africa. My goal is to pretty much finish processing – including captioning and keywording – by the end of the month, but this is a pretty ambitious target, so we’ll see [...] "Womanhood," Africa Dreamed Collection: A woman in the village of Diagourou near Tera, Niger wears the traditional silver jewelry of the Fulani people. Diagourou is a 5-km, very sandy motorcycle ride from the town of Tera, where I lived during my third year as a Peace Corps volunteer. I was working with the [...] |
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