Eden street after a major rain
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I was waiting for ages for the rainy season to begin, and for the past few weeks, it’s been so hot that I thought it would never start. Then finally, a horizon full of heavy clouds appeared and it finally started to rain for real!
It rained for a whole night and half a day, which […]
As you probably all know by now, I love the Zinder bush. I love the contrast between the yellow sand, the red mud, the green trees and the often so blue sky. It’s serene and I can watch it for ages.
There’s something precious about the expanse, the ancient rocks and the handful of villages situated […]
Little Abdul was eating a mango by himself…
…when the kids saw Ishtar bring out the camera, and all of a sudden, there was no longer only one!
The superpose
Boys speak a universal boy language wherever they are
Aichatu, Adama and a brother
Laughter is contagious
Mina and a friend from another street
I realize […]
Life on Eden Street (2008)
I love Niger. I can’t always tell you why, but I just do. It’s a strange place. It’s different from most other places on earth. It lacks tempo and several other Western values that we seem to think of as general virtues these days; but it’s genuine and generous and I […]
The following chronical was originally published in Bergens Tidende on april 28th. Entitled “Apologize, Egeland”, it was my response to Jan Egeland’s dead silence concerning his dealings with the Niger 2005 famine scam, a “famine” he was so involved with that he credited himself for having solved the entire issue. With Egeland having recently visited […]
Where were you, twenty years ago?
This very day, twenty years ago, I was visiting the field station with my family to see the development of the new mud buildings that Eden was setting up in Dalli, 13 km south of Tanout city.
Although the buildings themselves were nice, the field station did not make that much […]
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I hear aid workers in town talking about the need for emergency food operations in Niger again, and on UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund site, I read the following about Niger’s current state:
Almost 30% of the population is in need of emergency food aid
CERF 2008
And there we go again… It’s a never ending […]
I can’t even tell you what it is with this picture that makes me love it so much, but there’s just so much of Niger in it. So much of the socialization, the calmness and the taking of the day as it comes…
Anette took this picture while we were visiting Dogo with our friend Aaron […]
So how was warm season in Niger spent 20 year ago? I was looking through my mother’s image archives the other day and found lots of reminders, all from the month of May 1988.
As always, May was excessively dusty - and we found we could write things in the dust coat on the veranda table. […]
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The Eden farmers and their families mix the cooked Maerua crassifolia leaves with crushed peanuts, decorate with an onion and sell it in the village. There is a lot of money to be made this way, because the meal is good!
And so when making one of the two casseroles I was going to […]
Although it’s only May, I see many farmers in the Zinder region have already sowed their millet. It’s a gamble, because if it doesn’t rain consistently before the rainy season picks up for real, the millet sowed will dry up and die and the farmer will have to resow again. In 2004-05, the farmers in […]
So here’s the scenario: We head up 06.30 am (on a Saturday, yes), get the work done before the warmest period of the day sets in (when the air around your feet is so hot that it burns your skin!) and then head back in time for an afternoon ride…
If we’re lucky, the preparations for […]
With Aïssa and her relatives (1987)
Aïssa and I (2007)
Just left wondering… Where has the past two decades gone?
Here are a few highlights from the Nigerien racing season ending at the Zinder track:
Zinder - one of the most laid back race tracks in the world
A traditionally dressed horse with multiple decoration
Horse and rider heading through the crowd
A well photographed pair!
Traditional musicians
For other posts on horse racing in Zinder, […]
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