Ganvie BENIN
Stilt houses. Tin roofs. Sounds of wooden decks. Boats filled with market goods – floating. Women in big hats – selling. Men with nets and branches – fishing.
Bohicon BENIN
Strip-mall feeling Street-side sellers Bus station snacks. Watching very little people Sit on stools And totter in the sand.
Abomey BENIN
Low-lying red mud houses And palaces Crouching In high green grass reeds. Hidden weight of history Midst mud decay. Some things forgotten; Some things to forget; Some cruelties and grandeur remembered; And an unobserved ongoing influence.
Parakou BENIN
Cheeky yellow birds. Big leafed green, green trees. Green and yellow shirts of moto taxis. Rhythm of rain. Rest and reflect. A …
Niamey NIGER
Food: day’s patterning: Buying… making… waiting… washing… Eating… More… and again… Honoured guests. Communal attention. Kind flavours. Mango conclusion.
Niamey NIGER
Government officials. Local and international NGOs. Concentration: French. Themes. Emerging picture of health context. Le Défi. Le But. The challenges. The goals. …
Niamey NIGER
Outdoor water, cooking and sleeping. Indoor eating, Brazillian soaps and shelter from hours of clamourous rain.
Torodi NIGER
Home of a mother. Welcome of women and children. And a beautiful old man. Cooking. Eating. Gifts. Kindness. Sitting in curtained rooms. …
Niamey NIGER
Communal dwelling welcome into the family of a friend. Personal chauffeurs in expanding cars. Evening visits with the extended family: sisters, cousins, …
Ouagadougou BURKINA FASO
Me and Stella on her scooter Miles and miles of cityscape. Children dancing. Students marching. Family gathering: food: festivity.