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At the Grand Bassin (Ganga Talao) for the Shiva Festival in Mauritius
The great Ganges River, the lifeline of Indian civilization for millennia, understandably holds immense importance in Hinduistic tradition. So much ...
Friendly People of the Philippines
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. William Arthur Ward What makes us smile in the first place, ...
A Random Girl, a Random Night in Cape Town
...Quite a few hours must have passed since the moment we were clinking the first beer glasses in an Irish ...
A Tanzanian Man Waiting for a European Benefactor
...Another nice chap I got to meet in Dar Es Salaam was Ibrahim. He was one of those tout-hustlers who ...
A Zimbabwean Recycling Artist
...There was only that one bloke whose trust I managed to win. Akasinga was a toothless, fifty-year-old man who used ...
A Bedouin in Mount Sinai
...By noontime, as I was climbing down the mountain from the same path and reapproached that little village in the ...
The blind Doorman of an Ethiopian Inn
…Another man who caused me a particular impression in that place was the afflicted, aged, scrawny, eyeless doorman of the ...
The Unarmed Guard of a Ugandan Guesthouse
...Finally, the time had come to get going and head towards new places. The sun had set for some time ...
The Story of an Ethiopian Refugee
People often ask me how my relationships are with other humans while I travel all the time; whether I experience ...
An Amputated Old Man at Lusaka’s Bus Station
...By early afternoon, I was finally roused by the squealing blares of some vendors who had invaded the bus. All ...
Giri Giri: The Magical West African Talisman that Protects against Bullets and Demons
I remember the first time I got introduced to that object known as Giri Giri... It was in that seaside ...
Attending a Senegalese Wrestling (Njom) Contest in Joal
It was that other night. Quite an advanced night it was. Deep darkness had befallen over the west African coast since ...
