The Casamance 5: Images of Seleki & Beyond

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Photos (top to bottom): photo1: goats are everywhere in Seleki, though, this time of year, they were more often corralled to keep them out of the rice fields; photo2: taken from the campement; photo3: at the campement during the one very blustery thunderstorm we encountered during our 10 days in Casamance; photo4: I wondered whether the girl residing in this campement apartment realized the significance of the Playboy bunny image; photo5: ponds are located throughout the village for the free-ranging animals; photo6: the red laterite against the lush green of the rice fields; photo7: in the mangrove nearby the campement; photo8: with Seleki in the distance, we cross dikes through the rice fields to reach Boubacar's pirogue; photo9: boat owner, Gerald, is an animist, and his bateau is adorned in the bow with a fetish; photo10: audience with the animist King of Oussouye; photo11: the one hundred mosquito bites on these poor dogs made for some very scratchy sleeping; photo12: the fetish in the tree is actually a ploy to prevent kids from nabbing the owner's baobab fruit; photo13: the gap in the walls allows for air circulation in these mudbrick homes; photo14: mosquito bed net in my campement room; photo15: the traditional impluvium-style buildings channel water into a central basin, and drain the excess back out; photo16: Almamy poses at the former home of his grandfather, a highly respected man in Seleki; photo17: we discovered last year that our wonderful housekeeper, Lena, is from Seleki, so we couldn't pass up the chance of meeting and photographing her mum as a gift; photo18: the skylighted interior of a home belonging to a cousin of Almamy; photo19: a bois sacre in the same home of this animist family.