Migrants of Nouakchott
Interface between Black Africa and Maghreb, present Mauritania has always been a land of transit. Five hundred miles off the Mauritanian coast, the Canary Islands are the targeted entrance gates to Europe for many West African emigrants attracted by the western mirage. Many of them, trying to reach their dream, embark on overloaded fishing boats on a one-way trip but never get to their destination. The overland connections through Sahara do not lead to a better fate.
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Tribal India, a culture living on borrowed time
In the woody hills of Orissa, a state of west India, subsist some sixty tribes, descendants of the first inhabitants of India. Even though many of them were willy-nilly converted to Christianity and to Hinduism thus no longer practising the animistic rites, they perpetuate the customs and lifestyles inherited from their ancestors.
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