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Everyday life
Everyday life is something that a newcomer encounters the very day of his arrival in Africa. Very often, his or her first impression is astonishment: how much the everyday life of Africans resembles what the traveler left at home! They have the same problems: how to provide food, dwelling and clothes to one’s family; how to cook the food… And, at first glance, they solve these problems in the ways similar to what we have at home. But very often, this impression is soon replaced by new astonishment: how different are their ways! For some reasons, Africans perform usual operations in rather unusual ways, and their results are often different too…
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The Maninka village.
Guinea. A. V. Erman. 1999. |
Two Fulbe girls in festive costumes.
Mali. V. F. Vydrin. 1998. |
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When the lip disk is removed, the lower lip looks very special.
Ethiopia (Abyssinia)
Shneerson D., 2006
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Vendor of brooms.
Côte d’Ivoire.
Perekhvalskaya E., 2006
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Houses and sheds in a Yaure village.
Kiekiekro. Yaure.
Tsuryupa M., 2007
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In the cities, artificial hair is often used for hairdo.
Abidjan.
Erman A., 2007
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View of popular residential area.
Angola. Luanda.
Perekhvalskaya E., 2004
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To arrange a woman’s hairdo is not easy.
Mali. Sibi. The Maninka.
Perekhvalskaya E.
2005
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Pestle and a mortar are the main tool of an African woman.
Kiekiekro. Yaure.
Tsuryupa M., 2007
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Granaries are always set on stones.
Mali. Sebekoro.
Vydrin V., 1998
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Tea ceremony.
Mali.
Vydrin V., 2002.
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Attire of a Dan man for solemn occasions.
Côte d’Ivoire. The Dan.
Kuznetsova N., 2006
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Washing clothes in the Niger river.
Mali. Bamako.
Vydrin V., 1998
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Traditional attire of the people of South Ethiopia.
Ethiopia (Abyssinia).
Shneerson D., 2002
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Ma-Sha, the youngest wife of the head of the local Catholic community, is spreading out the pounded cassava to dry.
Côte d’Ivoire. Santa. The Kla-Dan.
Vydrin V., 2002
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