Where Hosts Push Drinks Down Guests' Throats

Brazil. Amazon rain forest. To help keep the peace with neighbors, a Yanomami clan invited another to come share plantain soup with them. Custom requires that hosts show much generosity and guests much delight with it, even  if it the soup must be pushed down their throats.  To keep up with the generosity, guests have no recourse but to also push a finger inside their throats once in a while to make room for more soup.  They get so bloated that  they end up looking high on drugs.

Brésil. Amazonie. Pour aider à conserver la paix avec des voisins, un clan yanomami en invita un autre à boire avec eux la soupe de plantain. La coutume requiert que les hôtes démontrent une grande générosité et les invités beaucoup de satisfaction, même s’il faut leur faire boire a la force. Et les hôtes font la queue devant chaque invité avec leurs pleines calebasses. Pour tenir le coup les invités n’ont d’autre recours, de temps en temps, que de s’enfoncer un doigt dans la gorge.

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Nothing Entertains Children like a Great Father's Story

Brazil. Salvador. A Fisherman tells four of his ten children about a funny adventure he lived.

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How the Tuareg Deal with a Recalcitrant Baby Camel

Niger. Sahara Desert. A Kel Rela Tuareg girl is pulling a baby camel away from its mother for not allowing her family to draw out some of the milk for themselves. The girl would then tie the animal to a stake near her tent.

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Backpacking in the Sahel--or Carrying Freedom on a Stick

Niger near Tahoua. Sahel. Fulani nomad walking ahead of his herd of zebus, which follow him like dogs .He carries all his possessions on a stick. They include a straw mat to rest on, a piece of cloth to lie under at night, a bag of millet grain to mix with water for a quick meal, a calabash to prepare the millet and eat in, an ax to cut wood for a fire, a bow to hunt, arrows in a leather  sheath, a herder's stick, rope shackles for some of his animals. 

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Nature Breeds Natural Grace

Niger. Sahel. Wodaabe girls waiting for their turn at the well

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Shawiya Berber Crossing Algeria's El Kantara Canyon

Algeria. Saharan Atlas. Aures Mountains. El Kantara Canyon. Shawiya Berber woman. 

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Every Group Has a Leader

Colombia. Bogota. Street kids warming up at fire they started with posters torn off the wall.

Peru. Lima. Villa Salvador shantytown on outskirts of the city. 

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Streetwise, Fearless, and Ready to Conquer the World

Peru. Lima. Villa Salvador shantytown on outskirts of the city. 

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Ashanti Running Water

Ghana. Adukrum, a village near Kumasi. Ashanti woman empties into the family's cistern.the basin she filled at the river. 


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Dreaming of Eyewear

Ethiopia. Lalibela. Young Amhara shepherd with glass-less eye-wear he made of plant material.

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Figuring How Much Is Two Plus Two

    Colombia. Cali. School for poor children.

Cameroon. Bamenda Grasslands. Primary school class.

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Poor but Decent, Hard-Working, and Honest

Peru. Lima. Cerro San Cristobal Slum.

At a Kenya's Life-Sustaining Water Hole

Kenya. Near Lake Turkana. Turkana nomads watering their herds of zebus and goats at deep water holes the women dug out of a dry river bed. Using large bowls they carved out of wood, the women scoop the water at the bottom of the holes and hand it up to the men above, who pour it in wooden troughs for their animals.

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Walking to School in Ghana

In Adukrum, a village near Kumasi, Ghana, Ashanti children must bring their own chairs to school every day. But they'd carry their desks there if they had to. They love school.

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