Photo Gallery

 

Hand-carved boat in Grand Popo. The same beaches where slave ships landed, taking people mainly to the Caribbean.

 

A view from the beach of Grand Popo where I lost my glasses… maybe this why it’s a Radio story?

 

One of many happy faces in Jen’s village eager to have their photo taken.

 

Patrishia, one of Jen’s village kids.

 

Minding the road from Allada, these boys use a dead bird wrapped to a stick as a toy.

 

Jenafir’s brooms on the wall outside her house, the ones she loved to sweep the yard with.

 

Ganvie: a village entirely on the water. Benin’s main tourist attraction. Boats to the mainland use maze sacks woven into sails… we took one with an outboard motor.

 

From a craft shop in Ganvie.

 

Taken by Jen, one of the children she worked with and tried to find services for.

 

Culture shock: Jenafir outside a huge clothing store in Paris on her way home… caught between cultures.

 

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