Ouagadougou BURKINA FASO
Weight. Rest. Wait. Receive.
Weight. Rest. Wait. Receive.
Paving. Traffic lights. Grid streets. Holy name humour Challenging Big city anonymity. Phoenix buildings from rubble spaces: Red sand surface. Grey sand guidance.
An easy breeze. An ensemble of weaving traffic. Cars, motos, bicycles, people moving around and along streets lined with big old trees.
Plateau views of a big city stretching across a wide, lazy Niger.
Open air music with friends of a Mission and Toumani Diabate. Dancing with weekend party people to kora and djembe rhythms.
Rooftop sunset. Glowing red city facets. Old walls: annual restoration rituals. Famous market and celebrated mud-cloth maker.
Boat building cacophony. Quieter perspectives from a piroque. Island football. Splashing children. Steady fishing.
Pointing to his hand with each finger a different length, he said, “It is possible to live well together. We need different …
Unimagined arrival into ancient, remote city. Awesome unknowns of billowing sandstorm. Easy rest into hospitality of nomadic Toureg people.
Cliff hanging villages, great plains, open arms.