Burkina Faso "Tribes of Gorom-Gorom" Jay Dunn 28 images Created 27 Mar 2008
West Africa, Burkina Faso, 2007. --
The small town of Gorom-Gorom, in the sand-locked northeastern corner of Burkina Faso, is host each Thursday to an extraordinarily vibrant market: Bella nomads and Fulani vendors, Hausa farmers and Tuareg traders come from miles around, on foot, by donkey or camel, and in vehicles of every kind, to buy or barter animals, spices, goatskins, medicines, pottery, produce and dry goods, everything and anything essential to life.
In full swing by ten o'clock in the morning, the town square from which the market starts expands in every direction, the available shelter from the sun eclipsed by the demand for sales space. By nightfall in the desert, one can still see exhausted vendors returning to their villages, babies fast asleep, trudging familiar paths in the dusk. -- More at www.jaydunn.org --
Humanitarian Issues & Cultural Tradition Worldwide
The small town of Gorom-Gorom, in the sand-locked northeastern corner of Burkina Faso, is host each Thursday to an extraordinarily vibrant market: Bella nomads and Fulani vendors, Hausa farmers and Tuareg traders come from miles around, on foot, by donkey or camel, and in vehicles of every kind, to buy or barter animals, spices, goatskins, medicines, pottery, produce and dry goods, everything and anything essential to life.
In full swing by ten o'clock in the morning, the town square from which the market starts expands in every direction, the available shelter from the sun eclipsed by the demand for sales space. By nightfall in the desert, one can still see exhausted vendors returning to their villages, babies fast asleep, trudging familiar paths in the dusk. -- More at www.jaydunn.org --
Humanitarian Issues & Cultural Tradition Worldwide
