Category Archive for: ‘Africa’
Tengzueg Shrine, Tongo Hills – Ghana
Tengzueg Shrine @ Tongo Hills, 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 …
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Photos – Togo: With walls built of wet clay and straw – that sets hard as concrete – these 17th century fortified houses in the Tamberma Valley were built to defend against slave-hunting raiders …
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Ganvie, Benin
Known as “the Venice of Africa” – Ganvie is the largest village on Lake Nahoue …
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Voodoo ceremony – Togo
I participate in a Voodoo ceremony to celebrate a good New Year, Lake Togo, Togo, 2008.
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Voodoo priestess – Togo
Visiting the Voodoo Priestess at her house/shrine in Togoville, Lake Togo. She was bare-chested and so too I had to remove my shirt before meeting her as was local custom …
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Wandering muso – Ghana
On route to the scared sites and animist villages of Tongo Hills in Northern Ghana, I encounter a wandering musician …
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Timbuktu – Mali
Once a fabled city of great gold wealth and Islamic scholarship, today Timbuktu is …
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Niger River – Mopti to Timbuktu – Mali
3 days down the Niger River, thru the Sahara, from Mopti to Timbuktu, by pirogue. Camping on the desert shores, passing mud-sculptured villages and their elaborate mosques
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