10 Photos

Early evening in the small desert town of Agadez in Northern Niger. This is one of the main squares, beside the Grand Mosquee, shot from a rooftop cafe. In December the days are warm and dry but the nights are cool, a refreshing
change, but you need to remember to pack a sweater.

Un certain coucher de soleil sur le fleuve qui sépare le Niger et le Tchad, 2001

Mosque in a small village

View of Agadez with its famous mosque. Niger.

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Some well-known musicians from Niger attend the baby naming ceremony of another musician’s son, Ghalitane of Etran Finatawa.

“Ghost town of Djado is steeped in moonlight and mystery. Once it was a station on a slave-trading route between Niger and Libya. Surrounded by malarial swamps, adobe dwellings are now occupied by scorpions and snakes.”(Text and photograph from”Journey to the Heart of the Sahara,” March 1999, National Geographic magazine)

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