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Trip to Casamance in Senegal, culture and dance of the Diola people
Trip to Casamance in Senegal, culture and dance of the Diola people Trip to Casamance in Senegal with Mara Bagossi to discover the culture and dance of the Diola people.…
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Sallah Durbar Festival in Kano, the magnificent celebration in Northern Nigeria
Back home after the Sallah Durbar Festival in Kano… Ranka ya Dede! (May you live long!) shouts the people and the nobility as the emir passes through the streets of…
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Sharo Ceremony, the scars of Fulani love in Nigeria
Sharo fulani ceremony in northern Nigeria We travelled to northern Nigeria to attend a Sharo or Shadi Fulani ceremony. There, in a remote village in Jigawa State on the border…
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Ilha da Baía dos Tigres and Foz do Cunene, trip to the southern Angola
Ilha dos Tigres and Foz do Cunene A few days ago we travelled to the desert coast of the Namib in southern Angola (March 2024) for one of the most spectacular…
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Bogolán, the language of textiles
Bogolan, Mali’s earthenware textiles Bogolan, ‘mud textiles’ in the Bambara language, is the type of dyeing technique that artists in Mali have used for centuries on hand-woven textiles. Ancestral handicraft…
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Kankurang, the Mandinka initiation rite in West Africa
Kankurang, Mandinka initiation rite in West Africa Kankurang, a Mandinka initiation rite practised mainly in Senegal, Gambia and Guinea Bissau. We delve into this initiatory world with Judit Torrent Navarro.…
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Planet Sahel, a borderline territory
The Sahel is a land of transition between the desert and the savannah that precedes the jungles of the south. It is a horizontal strip of land spread across more…
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Salt caravans in the Sahara, resistance or death
It is still possible to find salt for sale in the markets of the Sahel and Saharan cities such as Gao, Timbuktu, Agadez or Kalait. And on our expeditions in…
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Ennedi rock art, Chad’s hidden treasure
The Ennedi rock art is one of the riches of Chad’s most important national park. A territory of more than five million hectares, with an enormous wealth of landscapes. We…
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Bori Hausa ceremony: animist practices in Niger
Niger is a diamond in the rough. With an enormous cultural heritage and very friendly people. We fell in love with it without a doubt. Among its cultural riches, we…
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Lomako – Yokokala Wildlife Reserve in DR Congo
Created in 2006, the Lomaoko-Yokokala Reserve is a protected area with an area of 3,625 km² (slightly larger than Luxembourg) and is situated between the Lomako and Yokokala rivers in…
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A curious maternity leave in Congo (DRC)
On the 2023 Jungle Kongo Expedition trip, Austerio Alonso and the other travellers had the good fortune to witness a ceremony to mark the end of the Ekonda pygmies’ “maternity…
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