the candy trail ... travel blog » Africa http://www.thecandytrail.com/blog a global nomad across the planet, since 1988 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:09:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Faces of West Africa http://www.thecandytrail.com/blog/2009/01/20/faces-west-africa-people/ http://www.thecandytrail.com/blog/2009/01/20/faces-west-africa-people/#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:06:00 +0000 Michael Robert Powell http://www.thecandytrail.com/blog/?p=1708

Portrait collection from across West Africa: faces of Togo, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Mali, Ghana …

]]> http://www.thecandytrail.com/blog/2009/01/20/faces-west-africa-people/feed/ 0 Tamberma Valley, Togo http://www.thecandytrail.com/blog/2008/01/08/tamberma-valley-togo/ http://www.thecandytrail.com/blog/2008/01/08/tamberma-valley-togo/#comments Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:24:41 +0000 Michael Robert Powell http://www.thecandytrail.com/blog/?p=1614 Amid the Tamberma Valley of northern Togo are these amazing 17th century fortified houses – built to defend against slave-hunting raiders.

Village compounds & people - Tamberma Valley of northern Togo

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Ganvie Benin

Ganvie is a community that settled here some centuries ago to avoid enslavement by the blood-thirsty, slave-selling kingdom of Dahomey (central Benin) who sold their product onto the Europeans based in trade forts along the coast; because of their religious beliefs it was forbidden for the Dahomey African slavers to go out onto the waters. Today the people of Ganvie are very shy about having their photo taken so mostly these pics were taken discreetly from my stilt-house guestroom balcony.

]]> http://www.thecandytrail.com/blog/2008/01/02/ganvie-benin-photos/feed/ 0 Voodoo ceremony – Togo http://www.thecandytrail.com/blog/2008/01/01/voodoo-priest-togo/ http://www.thecandytrail.com/blog/2008/01/01/voodoo-priest-togo/#comments Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:37:37 +0000 Michael Robert Powell http://www.thecandytrail.com/blog/?p=3086 I actively participated in a Voodoo ceremony in Togo, near Lake Togo, to celebrate a good New Year …

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]]> http://www.thecandytrail.com/blog/2007/12/31/voodoo-priestess-togo/feed/ 0 Wandering muso – Ghana http://www.thecandytrail.com/blog/2007/12/11/ghana-folk-music/ http://www.thecandytrail.com/blog/2007/12/11/ghana-folk-music/#comments Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:24:23 +0000 Michael Robert Powell http://www.thecandytrail.com/blog/?p=1403 On route to the scared sites and animist villages of Tongo Hills, I encounter a wandering musician, 2007.

]]> http://www.thecandytrail.com/blog/2007/12/11/ghana-folk-music/feed/ 0 Tongo Hills – Ghana http://www.thecandytrail.com/blog/2007/11/25/tongo-hills-ghana/ http://www.thecandytrail.com/blog/2007/11/25/tongo-hills-ghana/#comments Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:07:13 +0000 Michael Robert Powell http://www.thecandytrail.com/blog/?p=3032 Tongo Hills and Tengzueg Shrine in northern Ghana: I visited this area over two days with my local guide Rashid, meeting the King and his son, and later drinking beer and smoking joints in this surreal landscape … where the local people believe in the spirit world and offer chicken sacrifices in a sacred cave in the rocks above the village …

Tongo Hills village scenes - Ghana

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