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COCONUTS, COELACANTHS AND MOONSHINE

by Travels with My Hat Posted on September 14, 2021

“When I hauled the net in…I saw the strange fish and realised it was different from anything I had ever seen before…It lifted its lip and snapped its mouth shut…I told the crew to put it on the wharf and … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Photographs, Travel | Tagged Africa, Anjouan, archipelago, coconuts, coelacanth, Comores, Comoros, fish, Indian Ocean, Islam, islands, marriage, Moheli, Moroni, mosque, Muslim, palms, wadaha, ylang-ylang | 2 Comments

Female Genital Mutilation: anything to keep a man

by Travels with My Hat Posted on February 20, 2013

On a visit to Djibouti (Horn of Africa) in 1965, I came upon a report on female genital mutilation prepared by a French doctor attached to the Foreign Legion. It described the hideous practices perpetrated on young Somali girls by their female … Continue reading →

Posted in Comment, Culture, Photographs | Tagged Africa, AIDS, boy, circumcision, culture, custom, customs, cut, female, FGM, girls, Horn of Africa, labiaplasty, male, mutilation, practice, snip, Somalia, STD, Sudan | 37 Comments

THE PROBLEM OF BUSH MEAT

by Travels with My Hat Posted on July 13, 2010

I read a post by a photographer recently who boasted of eating bush-meat in central Africa. When challenged on this (he’d included it in his biography as being something special) he responded saying what could he do: he was served … Continue reading →

Posted in Comment | Tagged Africa, animals, bush meat, catholic, food, Ghana, poachers, priest, slaughter, Tanzania, wildlife | 5 Comments

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COCONUTS, COELACANTHS AND MOONSHINE

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