Street vendors
This is not the infamous Patpong Bangkok night market No seedy strip joints or similar activities, this is Niamey Just street vendors gathering like moths around the rare light spots There is a very minimal equipment in public lighting And when the big shops will close it will become a pitch dark city Lit by […]
Typical scene of an African alfresco kitchen Cooking for the family and selling on the street Giving away food for the street kids An organized bric-a-brac of colorful kitchen wares The poetry of a scene from the simple everyday life People may be poor by ‘western’ standards, but not proletary Photo Hugh Ardoin Africa by […]
Beautiful and fresh morning in Niamey after a rainy night Vendors sell the staples of everyday life, even here deep in the heart of Africa Cigarettes, bread and telephone top-ups, a very strange gift in the name of civilization They seem to be the only things left by centuries of colonization and slave trade A […]