Medenine is the major town in southeastern Tunisia. When you look at people in the street, you would never guess that the place was used as a shooting location for ‘Star Wars – episode 1’. November 2000. Médenine est la ville principale du sud-est de la Tunisie. Quand on regarde les gens dans la rue,…
Cotonou is known in the whole Africa for the Dantokpa market, an international market spread over 20 hectares. It is the largest market in Western Africa. May 1991. Cotonou est connue dans toute l’Afrique pour le marché Dantokpa, un marché international de 20 hectares. Il s’agit du plus grand marché de l’Afrique de l’Ouest. Mai…
Ilorin used to be a major center of the slave trade. Slaves were taken from the Igbo lands to the east and sent to the USA, the West Indies and Brazil. The city is now a Muslim city where religious festivals are celebrated with great pomp. This young prince was proud to show the camel…
French Nobel laureate writer JMG Le Clézio spent part of his childhood in a Nigerian city called Onitsha. « Onitsha » is also the title of a novel he published in 1991. Located on the eastern bank of the Niger river, the city possesses one of the very few road bridge crossings of the mile-wide river. May…
Two worlds ignore each other. These Fula shepherds have built their camp below the walls of the now moribond Ajaokuta steel mill. Women pound yam the same way their ancestors did, as if nothing had changed. March 1990. Deux mondes s’ignorent. Ces bergers peuls ont établi leur camp sous les murs de la désormais moribonde…
The Okene market is the place to meet the Fula shepherds. Their buffalo herds graze on the banks of the Niger river. November 1989. Le marché d’Okene est le lieu où on rencontre les bergers peuls. Leurs troupeaux de buffles paissent sur les bords du fleuve Niger. Novembre 1989.
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