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Image Tag: Africa

Beninise - adults and kids alike - don't really like having their pictures taken, especially by white visitors. Whites are referred to as "yobo yobo". These kids were good sports.

The Temple of Pythons is a site of historical and modern symbolism and spiritual practice in Ouidah, Benin. The snakes are a major totem for followers of Vodun, a religion practiced by groups of people within West and Central Africa and are believed to serve as a middleman between the living and spirit worlds.

Nigerian fishing boats, resting on the beach - Gulf of Guinea, southern Benin

Annoyed lioness guarding her cubs…she charged our vehicle a moment later - lucky for us she didn’t really mean it :0)

Nigerian fisherman on the Gulf of Guinea in southern Benin, helping to pull in nets after a night of fishing.

Wandering through the bush in rural Benin, we bumped into this friendly young fellow driving his herd.

Three Karo tribesmen of the Omo Valley region in Southwest Ethiopia, in not so traditional garb