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Boys at a medersa (islamic school) in Djenee. A UNESCO World Heritage Site. Mali, West Africa
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Boy walking along the Sankore mosque, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Timbuktu, Mali, West Africa
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People crossing the Bani river, after a market day in Djenee, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Mali, West Africa
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People crossing the Bani river, after a market day in Djenee, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Mali, West Africa
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Man at the Djenee mosque, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Mali, West Africa
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Market in front of the Djenee mosque, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Mali, West Africa
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Market in front of the Djenee mosque, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Mali, West Africa
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A decorated escarpment at the Dogon village of Songho. Magic symbols spread the wall where circumcision of boys takes place each year. Dogon Country, Mali, West Africa
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Women after washing clothes walking along the Niger river. Segou, Mali, West Africa
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People crossing the Bani river going to the market of Djenee. Mali, West Africa
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A decorated escarpment at the Dogon village of Songho. Magic symbols spread the wall where circumcision of boys takes place each year. Dogon Country, Mali, West Africa
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On a foggy dawn, fishermen try their chance at the Niger river. Bamako, Mali, West Africa
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On a foggy dawn, fishermen try their chance at the Niger river. Bamako, Mali, West Africa
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People crossing the Bani river going to the market of Djenee. Mali, West Africa
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A decorated escarpment at the Dogon village of Songho. Magic symbols spread the wall where circumcision of boys takes place each year. Dogon Country, Mali, West Africa
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Amateur actors perform a Sao Tomense play called Auto de Floripes.The play is traditionally performed each year in August in the middle of Santa Antionio, on the island of Principe. Sao Tome and Principe is Africas second smallest country with a population of 193 000.
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Amateur actors perform a Sao Tomense play called Auto de Floripes.The play is traditionally performed each year in August in the middle of Santa Antionio, on the island of Principe. Sao Tome and Principe is Africas second smallest country with a population of 193 000.
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Amateur actors perform a Sao Tomense play called Auto de Floripes.The play is traditionally performed each year in August in the middle of Santa Antionio, on the island of Principe. Sao Tome and Principe is Africas second smallest country with a population of 193 000.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. Masked dancers wearing the satimbe mask perform at the Dogon village of Tereli. This mask honours the primordial woman who is said to have discovered the original Dogon masks. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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A Dogon woman stands in the doorway of a traditional adobe house in the village of Ende
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Gitega, Burundi. Traditional dancers perform at many local events, varying in style from district to district.
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Two young Datoga men work wells on the east side of Lake Manyara to water their family's livestock. The man who draws water balances precariously on two poles.The Datoga (known to their Maasai neighbours as the Mang'ati and to the Iraqw as Babaraig) live in northern Tanzania and are primarily pastoralists.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. A masked dancer wearing coconut shell breasts performs at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Pirogues (Niger River water taxis) jostle to meet an incoming passenger ferry near the port of Mopti. The slender wooden canoes are the traditional craft for fishing and transporting passengers and livestock on the Niger.
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Kigali, Rwanda. Contemporary dancers entertain at FESPAD Pan African dance festival.
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Woman walking through the medina, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Tetouan, Morocco
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Old men at the Case a Palabres (Court House) in Banani. Dogon Country, Mali, West Africa
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Old men at the Case a Palabres (Court House) in Sangha. Dogon Country, Mali, West Africa
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Amateur actors perform a Sao Tomense play called Auto de Floripes.The play is traditionally performed each year in August in the middle of Santa Antionio, on the island of Principe. Sao Tome and Principe is Africas second smallest country with a population of 193 000.
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A Nyangatom woman dries sorghum and other corn in the vicinity of her elevated grain stores, which prevent loss when the Omo River bursts its banks.The Nyangatom are one of the largest tribes and arguably the most warlike people living along the Omo River in Southwest Ethiopia.
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A Kwegu man with his torso decorated with local white chalk.Almost every man owns a gun, usually an AK 47 assault rifle, and keeps spare ammunition in a cartridge belt around his waist.The Kwegu known to the Karo as Muguji, a degoratory name meaning Working Ant, are the smallest tribe living on the banks the Omo River in southwest Ethiopia.
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At the start of a dance, Karo men sing and clap in line.The Karo excel in body art. Before dances and ceremonial occasions, they decorate themselves elaborately using local white chalk, pulverised rock and other natural pigments.The Karo are a small tribe living in three main villages along the lower reaches of the Omo River in southwest Ethiopia.
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Karo men dance in line by jumping high in the air, legs straight.Even while dancing, they each keep hold of their wooden stools, which double as pillows at night.The Karo excel in body art. Before dances and ceremonial occasions, they decorate themselves elaborately using local white chalk, pulverised rock and other natural pigments.
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A Dassanech youth sits on his wooden stool on a bank of the Omo River.Every man has his own stool, which doubles as a pillow at night.The Omo Delta of southwest Ethiopia is one of the least accessible and least developed parts of East Africa.As such, the culture, social organization, customs and values of the people have changed less than elsewhere.
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Mali, Promani village, near Djenne. Villagers pause beside a small mud brick granary in which they keep surplus food stores.
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Mali, near Segou, Kalabougou. A woman adds kindling to a fire in which pottery - for which this village is famous - is baked.
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San Cristobal Traditional Folk Group. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary islands
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San Cristobal Traditional Folk Group. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary islands
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Girl from San Cristobal Traditional Folk Group. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary islands
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Romeria (pilgrimage) de Nuestra Senora de las Dolores (Lady of the Volcanoes). People come walking from all the island and bring food offers for the disadvantaged. Lanzarote, Canary Islands
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Romeria (pilgrimage) de Nuestra Senora de las Dolores (Lady of the Volcanoes). People come walking from all the island and bring food offers for the disadvantaged. Lanzarote, Canary Islands
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Two young Samburu girls help each other preparing for a celebration,Wamba District,Kenya
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Maasai men ride camels in the dry bush country at Olorgasailie,situated between Nairobi and Lake Magadi.
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A Pokot warrior with a traditional blue clay hairstyle tends his camels in a lugga (seasonal watercourse) while waiting his turn to water them from a deep well.
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A Maasai elder herds his cattle near the foothills of Ol doinyo Orok (the Black Mountain).
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Turkana elders wear decorative ivory lip ornaments,secured in position by a spigot which is inserted in a hole pierced below the man's lower lip after initiation. This singular form of decoration was once widespread but is rarely seen today.
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Kenya,Maralal,Lodokejek. Samburu warriors and young girls sing and dance during a wedding celebration. The long Ochred braids of the warriors distinguish them from other members of Samburu society. A black ostrich-feather pompom decorates the top of a spear.
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A young Samburu herdsman drives goats towards a Waterhole along the Milgis - a wide,sandy seasonal watercourse which is a lifeline for pastoralists in the low-lying semi-arid region of their district. The hair style of the young man denotes his status as an uncircumcised youth.
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Maasai livestock watering at the seasonal Sanjan River,which rises in the Gol Mountains of northern Tanzania.
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A Maasai man,spear in hand,drives his laden donkeys across pristine volcanic grassland at the southern end of Lake Natron. Donkeys carry loads in leather panniers strapped loosely to their flanks.
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The Librarian sits outside,infront of Mauritania's oldest library,and inspects some old manuscripts.
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Meharistes',Soldiers Of The Desert,annual camel race. A Mehariste on his camel ready for the the start of the race.All the jockeys are in traditional costume especially for the occasion. Usually they would wear a uniform.
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Mehariste,Soldier Of The Desert,in traditional costume. Usually they would wear a uniform.
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Mali,Niger Inland Delta. At dusk,Bozo fishermen fish with nets in the Niger River just north of Mopti.
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Mali,Timbuktu. The decorated double doors of an old Koranic school in Timbuktu. Since ancient times,Timbuktu has been a place of Islamic learning. There are numerous madrasa there to this day.
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Mali,Timbuktu. A young boy copies Arabic on a wooden 'slate' in Timbuktu. Since ancient times,Timbuktu has been a place of Islamic learning. There are numerous madrasa there to this day.
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Mali,Mopti. A Fulani Woman wearing large 14-carat gold earrings. Kwottenai Kanye earrings are either a gift from her husband or inherited on the death of her mother. The top of each earring is bound with red wool or silk to protect the ear. The blades of the earrings are beautifully patterned.
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Mali,Mopti. At sunset,a boatman in a pirogue ferries passengers across the Niger River to Mopti.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. A masked dancer performs at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. A masked dancer performs at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. Masked dancers wearing the buffalo mask performs at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. A masked dancer performs at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. Masked dancers wearing the satimbe mask perform at the Dogon village of Tereli. This mask honours the primordial woman who is said to have discovered the original Dogon masks. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. A masked dancer wearing coconut shells as breasts performs at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. A masked dancer leaps high in the air at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. A masked dancer performs at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. Masked stilt dancers wearing coconut shells as breasts rest on a high wall at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. Masked stilt dancers wearing coconut shells as breasts perform at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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