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  • BURKINA FASO, Gorom-Gorom, 2007. Fulani, Taureg and Bella nomads wait for new stock to arrive at Gorom-Gorom's Thursday animal market.
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  • Niger, Agadez, 2007. There is little to do for these two Nigeriens in the center of the big market in Agadez.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Bani, 2007. By midday, almost everyone in this group was clearly exhausted, yet the singer's call and response continued until well after dark.
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  • Niger, Agadez, Tidene, 2007.  Rissa Ixa's 4 x 4 carries curved steel well sections to be delivered to a new Tuareg well site.
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  • Ghana, Accra, 2007. A quiet moment just after the burial of Jonathan Kwasi Kwafo.
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  • Ghana, Accra, 2007. Grandmother provides a refuge for this young child on an Accra back street.
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  • Burkina Faso, Bani, 2007. Boys sing at a Muslim ritual lasting twenty-four hours.
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  • Niger, Boubon, 2007. A farmer puts in a last half hour before the sun sets on his plot along the banks of the Niger River.
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  • Ghana, Ho, 2007. The first of the season's torrential rainstorms hits the Ho area just after twilight.
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  • Burkina Faso, Bani, 2007. In Bani's only school, a mixed-age class prepares for the day's lesson in French.
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  • Burkina Faso, Dori, 2007. Near the Dori market, a Muslim man expresses himself in dance.
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  • Burkina Faso, Dori, 2007. In the dry season, the water level sinks well below the lakebed in this northeastern corner of the country.
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  • Burkina Faso, Dori, 2007. A brick maker labors at the bottom of a water hole where the clay is good.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Bani, 2007. The graceful curve of a mature zebu's horn, seen in the dying light of afternoon near the main road.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Bani, 2007. Vultures loom over the empty courtyard of the "Grand Mosquee" in Bani.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Gorom-Gorom, 2007. Fulani women arrive early at Gorom-Gorom's Thursday market, which serves the whole region
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  • BURKINA FASO, Gorom-Gorom, 2007. After all day at Gorom-Gorom's Thursday market, around four in the afternoon Bella women begin the long ride home.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Gorom-Gorom, 2007. After riding in for two or three hours, Bella craftsmen finally arrive at Gorom-Gorom's Thursday market.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Gorom-Gorom, 2007. This Bella woman has spices for sale at Gorom-Gorom's Thursday market, which serves the whole region.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Gorom-Gorom, 2007. A Fulani boy has time on his hands at Gorom-Gorom's Thursday market.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Gorom-Gorom, 2007. A Bella woman watches over her handmade pots at Gorom-Gorom's regional market.
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  • Niger, Agadez, Tidene, 2007. Women walk in to the well area from miles around. Many do not have animals to spare for transporting people or goods.
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  • Niger, Agadez, Tidene, 2007. A single harvest of tomatoes will bring to the Tidene area not only food but money for much needed supplies.
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  • Niger, Agadez, Tidene, 2007. Heishi Ali unloads equipment and provisions for the central storehouse on Tidene land. Well workers use this small market for essentials.
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  • Niger, Agadez, Tidene, 2007. Rissa Ixa consults with Tuareg nomads using another of his wells. Each bore is different and requires maintenance.
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  • Niger, Agadez, Tidene, 2007. Water enables the Tuareg to grow all kinds of vegetables, including onions, garlic, squash, beans, and corn.
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  • Niger, Agadez, Tidene, 2007. Water cascades first into a sluice, then is chanelled into an irrigation system that feeds many acres of Tuareg gardens.
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  • Niger, Agadez, Tidene, 2007. Camels are used in tandem to raise water at this especially productive Tuareg well.
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  • Niger, Agadez, Tidene, 2007. An arrangement of ropes and pulleys enables this water bag to be raised by donkey or camel.
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  • Niger,Agadez,2007. A Tuareg camel saddle sits proudly atop the shelves in Takita Ixa's small shop at the family home.
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  • Niger,Agadez,2007. In the leafy trees that provide shade for Mohammad Ixa's family home, a milk jug sits outside to sour in the heat.
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  • Niger,Agadez,2007. Fatima and Halimata Ixa on the way home. They are lucky to have a car, as there is little public transportation infrastructure in Agadez.
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  • Niger,Agadez,2007. Halimata Ixa-Graille with her one-yearold child Iman in the shade at Mohammad Ixa's family home.
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  • Niger,Agadez,2007. Rissa Ixa locks up Fatima Ixa's traditional handicrafts shop in the center of Agadez.
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  • Niger,Agadez,2007. Late afternoon view from the second floor of Mohammad Ixa's family home. Most homes in Agadez are only one story high.
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  • Niger, Agadez, Tidene, 2007. In the soft light of early morning, a Tuareg boy waits for his sister to finish milking.
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  • Niger, Agadez, Tidene, 2007. The whole family participates in watering the herd. The Tuareg care for donkeys, goats, camel and zebu.
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  • Niger, Agadez, Tidene, 2007. Heishi Ali enjoys the morning cool around 6 AM at Rissa Ixa's camp. March temperatures regularly break 40 centigrade.
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  • Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, 2007. Sisters help a young girl get hair extensions along a quiet Oaugadougou back street.
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  • Niger, Boubon, 2007. A Muslim pirogue driver takes a moment for evening prayer by the banks of the Niger River.
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  • Niger, Agadez, 2007. After some guarded looks, two veiled girls on their way home from school finally relax.
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  • Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, 2007. A Tuareg nomad rests just next to a busy Ouagadougou intersection.
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  • Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, 2007. Dwarfed by a pile of firewood, an exhausted boy rests in the late afternoon.
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  • Burkina Faso, Dori, 2007. A Fulani mother and child take a moment of rest during the midday heat.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Bani, 2007. The sun dips behind a mosque's minaret atop the flats overlooking Bani village.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Bani, 2007. Many of the Muslim devotional singers of Bani are children, enthusiastic in their embrace of the tradition but showing the strain of standing for hours.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Bani, 2007. In the graveyard along the steep path to the top of the flats, signs of life among the volcanic rocks of Bani's desert environment.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Bani, 2007. The Grand Mosquee, centerpiece of the village, was built several hundred years ago during an era of great religious fervor in Burkina Faso.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Bani, 2007. The call and response of Bani's Muslim devotional singing requires almost constant attention, and these boys give it all they can.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Bani, 2007. The village is almost wholly built of mud and local wooden beams, as are the seven mosques that dot the landscape.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Gorom-Gorom, 2007. A Fulani mother looks tenderly at her baby near Gorom-Gorom's busy Thursday market, which serves the whole region.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Gorom-Gorom, 2007. Traders and nomads from miles around make this Thursday market one of the busiest in Burkina Faso.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Gorom-Gorom, 2007. This Tuareg nomad has brought camels from fifty miles away to sell at Gorom-Gorom's Thursday animal market.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Gorom-Gorom, 2007. Fulani women negotiate the price of goatskins, a prized commodity at Gorom-Gorom's Thursday market.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Gorom-Gorom, 2007. Tuareg, Bella and Hausa traders await new stock at Gorom-Gorom's Thursday animal market, which serves the whole region.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Gorom-Gorom, 2007. Handmade bracelets are only a few of the many adornments of this Bella vegetable vendor at Gorom-Gorom's regional market.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Gorom-Gorom, 2007. Hands stained purple by home turban dying, this Tuareg is buying cattle at Gorom-Gorom's Thursday market, famous in the region.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Gorom-Gorom, 2007. A Bella nomad surveys the spices at Gorom-Gorom's Thursday market, attended by hundreds of traders.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Gorom-Gorom, 2007. A Bella herder takes his time evaluating a cow at Gorom-Gorom's Thursday animal market.
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  • Niger, Agadez, Tidene, 2007. A well worker ascends from the bottom of a new bore. The Tuareg have invested in safety gear and good rigging.
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  • Niger,Agadez,2007. Although they may be humble, many residences are walled off from passersby, as these are near Mohammad Ixa's family home..
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  • Niger,Agadez,2007. Takita Ixa prepares breakfast in the doorway of her room at Mohammad Ixa's family home.
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  • Niger,Agadez,2007. Fatima Ixa relaxes in the welcome cool of the big room at Mohammad Ixa's family home.
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  • Niger,Agadez,2007. Safi Ixa watches over the babies as everyone takes refuge from the midday heat inside Mohammad Ixa's family home.
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  • Niger,Agadez,2007. Halimata Ixa-Graille in the doorway of Fatima Ixa's traditional handicrafts shop in the center of Agadez.
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  • Niger,Agadez,2007. The distinctive Sahel architecture of the "Grand Mosquee" of Agadez at twilight. With the exception of modern antennas, minarets are the tallest structures in the city.
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  • Niger,Agadez,2007. During the punishing midday heat, retiring to the cool in this big room inside Mohammad Ixa's family home is an attractive option.
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  • Niger,Agadez,2007. Set slightly below ground level, this big room inside Mohammad Ixa's family home is a cool refuge from the midday sun.
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  • Niger, Agadez, Tidene, 2007. In a Tuareg settlement, young and old share their lives in public.  Rissa Ixa's family lives in a group of three camps.
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  • Niger, Agadez, Tidene, 2007. For this young Tuareg girl, there are few opportunities to change her lifestyle or receive meaningful education from the government.
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  • Niger, Agadez, Tidene, 2007. Commonly used as fences, these useful but deadly thorn bushes are omnipresent in the Sahel and Sahara environments.
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  • Niger, Agadez, Tidene, 2007. Donkeys are used at this well for pulling power to raise water. Watering a herd can take four to five hours every day.
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  • Niger, Agadez, Tidene, 2007. Under the hard sun of mid-morning, the harsh conditions in which the Tuareg live becomes clear.
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  • Niger, Agadez, Tidene, 2007. Goat milk is an essential part of the Tuareg nomad's diet. The children are responsible for the morning's chores.
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  • Niger, Agadez, Tidene, 2007. Tuareg nomads load up donkeys in preparation for transporting grain to a faraway settlement.
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  • Niger, Niamey, 2007. Outside the patient's ward at the state hospital in Niamey, a new bride waits for her father to receive care.
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  • Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, 2007. Many street vendors must move constantly to find customers.
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  • Burkina Faso, Dori, 2007. A mother looks proudly at her daughter as she learns to accept a stranger.
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  • Niger, Agadez, 2007. The wall of an Agadez tailor shop displays posters of Mecca, and a composite featuring Bin Laden, Musharraf, Bush, and Qaddafi together.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Bani, 2007. A local watches his flock and a group of boys playing football far below on the dry-season floodplain outside of town.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Bani, 2007. Mud construction cool even in the midday heat, the arched interior passageways of the Grand Mosquee lead to a large central prayer hall.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Bani, 2007. Eyes closed in concentration, a man participates in the devotional singing of the town's Muslims.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Gorom-Gorom, 2007. Tuareg traders bring a young cow for a buyer's inspection at Gorom-Gorom's Thursday market, which serves the whole region.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Gorom-Gorom, 2007. A Tuareg nomad patiently waits for buyers in the controlled chaos of Gorom-Gorom's Thursday animal market.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Gorom-Gorom, 2007. This young woman is selling reeds for weaving baskets at Gorom-Gorom's busy Thursday market.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Gorom-Gorom, 2007. A curious Fulani girl watches the proceedings as traders arrive for Gorom-Gorom's Thursday market, which serves the whole region.
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  • Niger, Agadez, Tidene, 2007. A boy takes a break from tending fields. Tuareg live on site and take turns tending and protecting the crops.
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  • Niger, Agadez, Tidene, 2007. Tidene is too far away from viable marketplaces, so the Tuareg dry their tomatoes for easier transport and longer product life.
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  • Niger, Agadez, Tidene, 2007. These well-established tomato fields are the result of many seasons of hard work and careful management.
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  • Niger,Agadez,2007. A street scene near Mohammad Ixa's family home. Early morning and late afternoons are the best time to enjoy the hottest time of year.
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  • Niger,Agadez,2007. A re-photographed Polaroid from the family collection. On the left is Aissa Hamini, Mohammad Ixa's first wife, at the wedding of a friend.
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  • Niger,Niamey,2007. Rissa Ixa comforts his friend from Tidene, who has suffered a brain aneurysm. She has been driven down to Niamey, the capital, a twenty-hour journey.
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  • Niger,Agadez,2007. A friend of Rissa Ixa's from a remote village  has a medical emergency - Halimata Ixa helps the family find a specialist in Niamey.
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  • Niger,Agadez,2007. A friend drops by to chat at Mohammad Ixa's family home. Takita Ixa runs a small shop near the front to help make ends meet.
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  • Niger, Agadez, 2007. Takita Ixa, Mohammed Ixa's sister, in the doorway of her room at the family home in Agadez.
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  • Niger, Agadez, Tidene, 2007. The underside of a Tuareg nomad shelter. Beds are raised off the ground, and the entire structure can be made ready to move in one day.
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  • Niger, Agadez, Tidene, 2007. Containers of every sort are used to collect and transport water. Tuareg from twenty miles around must share this single well.
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  • Niger, Agadez, Tidene, 2007. Lowering the buckets into this Tuareg well  is done by hand, as they are raised when full by donkeys.
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  • Niger, Agadez, Tidene, 2007. The herd is happy to be let out in the morning for grazing. Each will return to the stockade by nightfall.
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  • Niger, Agadez, Tidene, 2007. Handmade stockades keep goats and donkeys close by at night. The survival of every animal is crucial to the nomads.
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