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Konso men wear stylish,brightly-coloured hats,which they weave from locally-grown cotton. Only men work the wooden looms but women flay the cloth to flatten the warp and weft. Much of their production is used to make the voluminous skirts of Konso women.
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A young woman at the entrance to a Konso homestead in southwest Ethiopia.The konso have a great affinity for wood and stone, large tree trunks and branches surround every home, and special care is taken to select the most pleasing shapes for their entrances.
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A Konso youth of southwest Ethiopia carries home a wooden yoke used by pairs of oxen to plough the land.
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A young Dorze boy winds cotton onto a bobin for his father. Dorze men are synonymous with weaving the best cotton cloth in Ethiopia.
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The central meeting place, mora, of an old Konso village set in dramatic scenery in southwest Ethiopia. The oldest villages date back 500 to 600 years and are fortified with huge dry stone walls.The Konso people are very industrious farmers, cultivating poor soil on terraces, which are buttressed with stones and rock.
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The Konso people of southwest Ethiopia worship the sky God,Waq,and place carved wooden effigies at prominent places to honour their illustrious ancestors. These eerie totems are often found grouped together. They can depict a dead hero,his wives,his enemies slain in battle or dangerous animals he may have killed in his lifetime.
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The Konso people of southwest Ethiopia worship the sky God,Waq,and place carved wooden effigies at prominent places to honour their illustrious ancestors. These eerie totems are often found grouped together. They can depict a dead hero,his wives,his enemies slain in battle or dangerous animals he may have killed in his lifetime.
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The Konso people of southwest Ethiopia worship the sky God,Waq,and place carved wooden effigies at prominent places to honour their illustrious ancestors. These eerie totems are often found grouped together. They can depict a dead hero,his wives,his enemies slain in battle or dangerous animals he may have killed in his lifetime.
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The Konso people of southwest Ethiopia worship the sky God,Waq,and place carved wooden effigies at prominent places to honour their illustrious ancestors. These eerie totems are often found grouped together. They can depict a dead hero,his wives,his enemies slain in battle or dangerous animals he may have killed in his lifetime.
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An old Konso woman with facial scarification smokes a traditional pipe made in part from a small decorated gourd. Tobacco is grown locally by the Konso.
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A Konso man wears a phallic Kallaacha on his forehead. Made of cast aluminium and ivory or bone,the Kallaacha is worn during the tribe's initiation and gada age-grade ceremonies. The Konso who live by their successful agricultural economy,live next door to the pastoral Borana and have many customs in common including the wearing of the phallus.
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A Konso village set in dramatic scenery in southwest Ethiopia.The Konso people are very industrious farmers,cultivating poor soil on terraces,which are buttressed with dry-stone walls. They share a number of customs with their neighbours,the Borana. They both worship the sky God,Waq,and both have an ancestor cult.
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A Mursi mother and child.The mother shades her shaven head from the sun with a small decorated leather apron.The Mursi speak a Nilotic language and have affinities with the Shilluk and Anuak of eastern Sudan. They live in a remote area of southwest Ethiopia along the Omo River.
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The Dorze people living in highlands west of the Abyssinian Rift Valley have a unique style of building their homes. The twenty foot high bamboo frame is covered with the sheaths of bamboo stems or straw, and resembles a giant beehive.Doorways are set in a bulge of the house, which forms a reception area for guests.These remarkable houses can last for forty years or more.
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The Dorze people living in highlands west of the Abyssinian Rift Valley have a unique style of building their homes. The twenty foot high bamboo frame is covered with the sheaths of bamboo stems or straw, and resembles a giant beehive.Doorways are set in a bulge of the house, which forms a reception area for guests.These remarkable houses can last for forty years or more.
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The Dorze people living in highlands west of the Abyssinian Rift Valley have a unique style of building their homes. The twenty foot high bamboo frame is covered with the sheaths of bamboo stems or straw, and resembles a giant beehive.Doorways are set in a bulge of the house, which forms a reception area for guests.These remarkable houses can last for forty years or more.
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A Malagasy girl wearing a locally woven hat. Madagascar is well known for the outstanding variety and styles of its local hats,which vary considerably from region to region. Different fibres are used to weave the hats depending on availability; they include palms (raffia,badika,manarana and dara) or straw.
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Mali,Dogon Country. An old man operates a narrow loom at Songho,an attractive Dogon village on top of the Bandiagara escarpment. Mali is Africa’s second largest producer of cotton.
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A Tsemay girl of southwest Ethiopia wears a leather skirt and bright beaded jewellery. She belongs to a small tribe living close to the Konso people.
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Terraced farming on the western scarp of Africa's Great Rift Valley,west of Lake Abaya. The crop under cultivation is Teff,a small-grained cereal,which is grown extensively in Ethiopia. It is used to make the country's national dish,injera,a fermented,bread-type pancake.
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An old Borana man at Chew Bet in southern Ethiopia. His unbleached cotton wrap and turban are typical of the older generation of his tribe.The pastoral Borana live either side of the southern Ethiopian/northern Kenya border and form a large and important group of the Oromo-speaking cluster of tribes.
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A young Amhara lady weaves a traditional food basket from dried grasses. These large colourful baskets are used for serving injera,a fermented,bread-type pancake,which is the country's national dish.She is wearing the national dress of Ethiopia - a shamma. This garment is made of homespun cotton with a finely woven and often brightly coloured border.
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A Konso man ploughs his land with two yoked oxen. In the absence of modern farming methods,a wooden stave serves as his plough. Traditional agricultural methods are widely used in Ethiopia..
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Kenya, Marsabit County, Kalacha. Turkana men wear traditional headdresses decorated with ostrich feathers at the Kalacha Festival. Ostrich feathers are a prized possession of the men.
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Kenya, Mara North Conservancy. A woman reads a book on Maasai in a comfortable armchair.
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Ethiopia, Asa Bolo, Afar Region. A camel caravan at sunset. They will be heading for the salt mines at Assale to load their camels with salt blocks the following day.
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Ethiopia, Assale, Afar Region. In the early morning, Tigrayan camel herders lead their camels and donkeys across the Assale salt flats to load salt blocks which have been mined there for centuries.
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Ethiopia, Assale, Afar Region. In the early morning, Tigrayan camel herders lead camel and donkey caravans to the Assale salt flats to load salt blocks which have been mined there for centuries.
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Ethiopia, Dallol, Afar Region. At almost 300 feet below sea level, Dallol is one of the lowest places on earth. Gas vents, geysers, salt, iron stains, sulphur and halophile algae turn the hot springs into a kaleidoscope spectacular colours.
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Ethiopia, Dallol, Afar Region. At almost 300 feet below sea level, Dallol is one of the lowest places on earth. Gas vents, geysers, salt, iron stains, sulphur and halophile algae turn the hot springs into a kaleidoscope spectacular colours.
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Ethiopia, Dallol, Afar Region. At almost 300 feet below sea level, Dallol is one of the lowest places on earth. Gas vents, geysers, salt, iron stains, sulphur and halophile algae turn the hot springs into a kaleidoscope spectacular colours.
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Ethiopia, Dallol, Afar Region. At almost 300 feet below sea level, Dallol is one of the lowest places on earth. Gas vents, geysers, salt, iron stains, sulphur and halophile algae turn the hot springs into a kaleidoscope spectacular colours.
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Ethiopia, Hamed Ela, Afar Region. Tigrayan men lead camel and donkey caravans along a seasonal watercourse to collect salt blocks from pans situated below sea level in the Danakil Depression.
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Ethiopia, Asa Bolo, Afar Region. Tigrayan men lead donkeys and a camel caravan down a rocky track from the Ethiopian Highlands to collect salt blocks from pans situated below sea level in the Danakil Depression.
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Ethiopia, Erta Ale, Afar Region. The molten lava in one of the two active pit craters of Erta Ale, a large shield volcano, lights up the night sky. It is one of the most persistent lava lakes in the world and is a major tourist attraction.
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Ethiopia, Erta Ale, Afar Region. The lake of molten lava in one of the two active pit craters of Erta Ale, a large shield volcano. This lake is one of the most persistent in the world and is a major tourist attraction.
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Ethiopia, Erta Ale, Afar Region. The lake of molten lava in one of the two active pit craters of Erta Ale, a large shield volcano. This lake is one of the most persistent in the world and is a major tourist attraction.
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Ethiopia, Erta Ale, Afar Region. The lake of molten lava in one of the two active pit craters of Erta Ale, a large shield volcano. This lake is one of the most persistent in the world and is a major tourist attraction.
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Ethiopia, Erta Ale, Afar Region. The lake of molten lava and the smoking fumarole of the two active pit craters of Erta Ale, a large shield volcano, (foreground) with Borale Ale Volcano in the far distance.
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Ethiopia, Erta Ale, Afar Region. The smoking fumarole of one of the two active volcanic pit craters of Erta Ale (foreground) with Borale Ale Volcano in the distance.
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Ethiopia, Erta Ale, Afar Region. The active volcanic pit craters of Erta Ale (foreground) looking north to Borale Ale and Dalafilla. This vast region has more volcanic activity than elsewhere in Africa.
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Ethiopia, Erta Ale range, Dalafilla, Afar Region. The smoking summit of Dalafilla which is a steep sided active stratovolcano rising 2,011 feet above sea level.
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Ethiopia, Erta Ale range, Catherine, Afar Region. Surrounded by vast lava fields, Catherine or Catherina is a round volcanic tuff ring with a crater lake. The blowhole on its side caused the newest lava flows.
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Ethiopia, Lake Bakili, Afar Region. This saline lake is surrounded by lava fields. Large cracks can be seen in the lava. Here, Africa is splitting apart at the rate of 1 2 cm a year through tectonic forces working deep below ground.
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Ethiopia, Lake Karum, Afar Region. Salt patterns on the flats beside Lake Karum. This salt water lake lies 116 metres below sea level and is fed by seawater just below the surface.
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Ethiopia, Lake Karum, Afar Region. Lake Karum is a saline lake which lies 116 metres below sea level. The water evaporates in exceedingly high temperatures to leave pure salt on the flats beside the lakeshore.
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Ethiopia, Lake Karum, Afar Region. Lake Karum is a saline lake which lies 116 metres below sea level beside the Assale salt flats where salt is mined. Note the salt patterns beside the lakeshore.
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Ethiopia, Gheralta, Tigray Region. A Tigray woman roasts coffee in her home in preparation for an Ethiopian coffee ceremony which is one of the most recognised forms of Ethiopian culture.
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Ethiopia, Abraha Atsbeha, Tigray Region. The interior of the semi monolithic 10th century church of Abraha Atsbeha is richly adorned with post 17th century paintings depicting biblical scenes.
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Ethiopia, Abraha Atsbeha, Tigray Region. A Coptic priest outside the huge wooden doors of the semi monolithic 10th century church of Abraha Atsbeha.
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Ethiopia, Addis Ababa. The Sheraton Hotel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia s capital city.
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Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Mercato. Stalls at the sprawling Mercato Market selling new and second hand electrical equipment and motors. Almost every conceivable discarded item is repaired and re cycled at Mercato.
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Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Mercato. A busy street scene at the sprawling Mercato Market.
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Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Mercato. A vegetable seller at the sprawling Mercato Market.
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Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Mercato. A stallholder at the sprawling Mercato Market sells traditional hand woven baskets which are used for serving injera, a type of flatbread made from fermented teff flour.
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Burundi. A coffee farmer sits beside the road. Coffee is one of the few cash crops produced for export in Burundi.
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Souvenir shop at Victoria and Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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A woman picking cotton in the low-lying Shire Valley of southern Malawi. .
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Mali,Niger Inland Delta. Dwarfed by minarets,the imam of Kotaka Mosque calls the faithful to prayers from the roof of the mosque.
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Mali,Mopti. Two men chatting outside Mopti mosque after afternoon prayers. This fine Sudan-style mosque was built in 1935 and recently repaired to its former condition.
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Girls of the Tsemay tribe of remote Southwest Ethiopia wear attractively decorated leather skirts and aprons,and braid their hair in a number of different eye-catching styles.The Tsemay are a small tribe neighbouring the more numerous Hamar people with whom they share a common language.
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A Dassanech girl braids her sister's hair at her village in the Omo Delta. Much the largest of the tribes in the Omo Valley numbering around 50,000,the Dassanech (also known as the Galeb,Changila or Merille) and Nilotic pastoralists and agriculturalists.
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Karo men paint each other in preparation for a dance in the village of Duss. A small Omotic tribe related to the Hamar,who live along the banks of the Omo River in southwestern Ethiopia,the Karo are renowned for their elaborate body painting using white chalk,crushed rock and other natural pigments.
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An elder of the Karo tribe,a small Omotic tribe related to the Hamar,who live along the banks of the Omo River in southwestern Ethiopia. The Karo are renowned for their elaborate body painting using white chalk,crushed rock and other natural pigments. This man also has a clay hairdo typical of tribal elders. Like most adult males he carries a rifle.
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Dassanech children play on the bank of the Omo River at sunset. Much the largest of the tribes in the Omo Valley numbering around 50,000,the Dassanech (also known as the Galeb,Changila or Merille) are Nilotic pastoralists and agriculturalists.
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A Nyangatom girl weaves a grass basket. The Nyangatom or Bume are a Nilotic tribe of semi-nomadic pastoralists who live along the banks of the Omo River in south-western Ethiopia.
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A Hamar woman sits on the ground breast-feeding her baby in the village square of Dimeka. Married women wear two heavy steel necklaces. This woman wears an extra necklace with steel a steel phallic symbol which identifies her as a first wife. She also wears a goatskin capefringed with cowrie shells and her hair long in a braided fringe matted with animal fat and ochre.
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A priest at Kebran Gabriel Church shows one of its many ancient illustrated books; the church has the largest library in the Tana region.
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At 400m across and 45m deep,the Blue Nile Falls,known locally as Tis Abay or Smoking Nile,are at their most spectacular after the rainy season in October.
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Ghana,Upper east region,Widnaba. A local chief sits in session.
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Ethiopia. A herd of camels being shepherded along a dusty red road just north of the Ethiopia/Kenya border.
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Ethiopia. A herd of cattle is driven along a dusty track against a typical Southern-Ethiopian parched landscape.
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Ethiopia, Lake Awassa. A pair of White-backed Ducks sit on the still waters of Lake Awassa.
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Ethiopia, Lake Awassa. A young boy punts a traditional reed Tankwa through the reeds.
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Ethiopia, Lake Awassa. A Malakite Kingfisher fishes from a fishing rod on Lake Awassa.
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Ethiopia, Lake Awassa. A Malakite Kingfisher sits on a rock on the shores of Lake Awassa.
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Ethiopia, Lake Awassa. A young boy fishes with a bamboo fishing rod.
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Ethiopia, Lake Awassa. A young boy fishes with a bamboo fishing rod.
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Ethiopia, Lake Awassa. A Man punts a traditional reed Tankwa through the reeds at sunset.
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Ethiopia, Lake Awassa. A young boy punts a traditional reed Tankwa through the reeds.
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Ethiopia, Harar. Harari women cast long shadows under the streetlights.
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Ethiopia, Harar. Harari women cast long shadows under the streetlights.
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