‘Speak a new language…so that the world will be a new world’ Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī
Image © Jason Florio – A fisherman paddles along the River Gambia at Goloumbou, Senegal, West Africa. From the ‘River Gambia Expedition-1044km source-sea African odyssey‘ series
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Top row – L-R: Photoville 2019, NYC; Remembering 9/11; fellow passenger, flying from the UK-USA
Middle row – L-R: Dog catchers, Nigeria; motor taxis ‘okadas’, Nigeria; fellow passengers, flying from Nigeria-Ghana
Bottom Row – L-R: all three images from Nigeria
Above images from documentary filming, in Ghana; Gambia – victims, and resisters (#Portraits4PositiveChange); ‘Destination Europe’ (migrant/refugee rescues)
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HIV’s New Frontline Uganda – Young women in Africa are up to 14 times more likely to contract HIV than boys of the same age. Paul Nuki reports from Uganda on the sexual exploitation driving a new wave of infection – The Telegraph
Confident at first, Fauza tells her story. Her father was a fisherman and they lived locally in a modest home, scraping a living from the Ugandan shores of Lake Victoria and its equatorial surrounds. But then she got pregnant.
“When he found out, my father chased me from home… my parents say I’m a loss to them, that I have no future… the man whose child it was said ‘I don’t want you here’.”
Read the full feature ‘Daring to Dream’ by Paul Nuki on the Telegraph site.
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On the way down he spoke about all the things he wanted to show her. All the things he had seen and all the things he had done and all the rocks he had climbed and the pools he had dived into. The carragheen and the gutweed. The limpets and anemones. Shipwrecks and catfish heads and stories about sea mines washed ashore overnight.
‘Have you ever seen a blowhole?’ he asked her… ‘Embayments’ read the full piece by Harry Gallon / athousandword. / Image © Jason FlorioFollow on IG @a1000wordphotos.
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