The Niger Bend | A Selection of Our Best Items |
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A boy in Bouake
item #361Ivory Coast - unknown tribe | A couple of happy guys
item #1679Ghana - unknown tribe |
American flag barbershop
item #1678Ghana - No tribal association | An ambulatory refreshment merchant
item #1682Togo - unknown tribe On the streets of Lome, Togo |
An odd sign on a bar
item #1681Ghana - unknown tribe | At a house in Lagos
item #1670Nigeria - Yoruba Please click on the image to see some more views of this neighborhood. |
At a well in the Sahara Desert near Agadez
item #162Niger - Tuareg We sell these old pulleys, obtained from wells like this one. Once the bucket is full of water it is too heavy to be brought up by hand so the other end of the rope is attached to an animal, a mule or a camel, and it is pulled up across these pulleys. The length of the rope, as long as 100 meters, is the depth of the well. Wells are centers of social activity in the desert; everyone must bring his animals (mules, camels, and goats) every other day to the well for water. | BaHawa
item #154Mali - Mossi Photography has always been an important part of my enjoyment of my experience in Africa. I photograph as many of the objects I purchase as I can, primarily for sales purposes. My photos of the places help me communicate the context in which I find the objects I buy to all those who have not been fortunate enough to travel to Africa themselves. But the most meaningful purpose that my photography serves is to bring me closer to the African people whom I love so much. |
Bakary Sidibe at the Ski Shop in Agadez
item #161Niger - Fulani | Boy selling skewered meat in Dosso
item #159Niger - Djerma |
Boys in Korhogo
item #293Ivory Coast - Senufo Please click on the photo for another boy in the same place | Building painting
item #1675Ghana - No tribal association The whole side of this house was painted with an AIDS awareness mural in Lome, Togo. I took this photo years ago; this painting has since largely worn off. |
Carrying items purchased in Abalak
item #166Niger - Tuareg | Christ
item #1676Ghana - No tribal association I found this painting hanging along a back alley, with a trickle of sewage running down the middle of the ditch, with a rather unfortunate message written on the wall. To the right of the painting is the symbol known as Gye Nyame (pronounced G nia may) which means "Choose God". |
Girl in Dosso
item #157Niger - Tuareg | Girls in Bouake
item #295Ivory Coast - unknown tribe Please click on the photo to see another cute girl. |
I am the American Dream
item #1460Mali - No tribal association I took this photo at the market in Bamako, Mali. Unfortunately this sign was not for sale; I would have purchased it if I could have. | I love some of the names they choose for their businesses in Ghana
item #1677Ghana - No tribal association Please click on the image for 2 other stores with interesting names. I believe they should have chosen the word "accept" instead of "except" in the photo of the store at the bus station. |
Lord Kenya
item #1673Ghana - No tribal association This is the artist who painted this great portrait. Please click on the image to see a wider view of this photo, the studio where I bought this sign, long since sold, and just a view of the studio, without this painting. I loved the proscription on the wall in the foreground. | Man and boy in Badeguicheri
item #165Niger - Djerma |
Man in the Abalak market
item #155Niger - Tuareg | Michael Jordan
item #1674Ghana - No tribal association This is Sawyer Dele, the artist who painted this great portrait which I bought and sold long ago. |
Mohamed, a Wodaabe in Niamey
item #163Niger - Fulani | My friends in Abidjan
item #298Ivory Coast - unknown tribe Cheick, Kader and Abdoulaye Conde at the beach at Assinie, east of Abidjan, Ivory Coast |
Pot merchants
item #1680Burkina Faso - unknown tribe Please click on the image for other pot views in Ouagadougou. | Rooftops of Agadez
item #158Niger - Tuareg |
Signs I liked but didn't buy them or did and they're sold
item #1672Ghana - No tribal association I bought this one and sold it already, but remember it fondly. Please click on the image to see another one I was not able to buy but liked, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. | Some beautiful women in Mali
item #1671Mali - unknown tribe Please click on the image for some more images of these fabulous ladies in Bamako. |
This guy was happy for me to take his photo in Aflao, Ghana
item #1669Ghana - unknown tribe I often drive through this town, in Ghana, on the border with Togo. | Tuareg man selling coffee and tea in Dosso
item #160Niger - Tuareg |
Women at the well in Badeguicheri
item #164Niger - Djerma | Wood carver in Bouake
item #297Ivory Coast - unknown tribe |
Yemboini Thiombiano Jean-Paul
item #1683Burkina Faso - unknown tribe This is my first friend in Africa, a man I admired like no other. He passed away in 2003. He was afflicted with the most common killer in Africa, a gastrointestinal disease. The only reason he died was because he just didn't know that all he had to do was go to the drug store to get a cheap and widely available medicine. The compound in the background is Yemboini's home. He was a very modern man, with a shower inside his house, possibly the only African living in such a house with that level of comfort. It's also not common to see Africans walking through their fields with a coffee cup, which is so common in so many other places, especially in the US. | Young man in Bouake where I buy some art
item #294Ivory Coast - unknown tribe |
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