Originally posted on The Pallasboy Project:
Dr Suzi Richer, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Archaeology, University of York Photo by Senna Thornton-Barnett. Wakas in Konso, Ethiopia “The wakas are a form a material culture in which elements of the process of ‘breastfeeding’ are represented” (Watson 2009) A couple of days ago, if I had been…
Originally posted on The Human Season. Photo post by @pa2015info. Source: 20 November: Woodland and a sound removed from its origin
Originally posted on The Human Seasons:
Today I should have been making my way back from the UNESCO world heritage site of Konso, in the south west of Ethiopia, to the captial Addis Ababa. But the on-going protests there (and strong government response) flared up again a couple of weeks ago. These events bypassed the international media.…
The past still stalks the present, and if we pause and look, we may recognise its footprints… Source: The past still stalks the present: The entanglement of slavery, tourism and palaeoecology on Zanzibar
“Hold on, but loosely,” he said. The blood flowed back into my knuckles as I released my grip. “I don’t want to go fast,” I reminded him, “Safe and slow is good.” Whilst deciding to take a motorbike back from the airport in Dar es Salaam might seem slightly reckless at first sight, I promise […]
I’m standing there looking at a row of doors on either side of a raised platform. You can’t step down from them, they are too high, so you’re forced to use the entrance/exits at either end. None of the doors are labelled. Occasionally a bus turns up at one of the doors. But I have no […]
The following is an entry from my journal. Whilst we arguably all have an imaginative engagement with environments and landscapes, these are not static. Instead they are often fluid and contingent… …I think it was at this point on the journey that I fell in love with Africa… The full article was first published here: […]
“Is this where the dala-dala stops?” I ask the guy who is standing by a slight bulge in the kerb of the road. To be honest I’m not entirely sure what a dala-dala looks like. But I have a feeling it’s basically a minibus. And whilst I’m massively apprehensive of it, I have little option […]
Sitting amongst the jasmine watching butterflies and insects flit around the plants in the moat. I wish I could capture the smell.
Suzi Richer 