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  • Soweto, South Africa. ANC (African National Congress) rally to commemorate the Sharpville massacre on its anniversary. On 21 March 1960 at least 180 black Africans were injured (there are claims that as many as 300 were injured) and 69 killed when South African police opened fire on approximately 300 demonstrators, who were protesting against the pass laws, at the township of Sharpeville, near Vereeniging in the Transvaal. The Sharpeville Massacre, as the event has become known, signaled the start of armed resistance in South Africa, and prompted worldwide condemnation of South Africa's Apartheid policies. Material World Project.
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  • A group of children on the street play checkers with beer bottle caps on a homemade checkerboard in Soweto, South Africa. Soweto is the nickname of Southwest Township, a sprawling lawless community outside Johannesburg. Published in Material World on page 26. South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Regina Mundi Catholic Church Service. Soweto, South Africa (Southwest Township is called Soweto, and is located outside Johannesburg, South Africa). Material World Project.
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  • Poppy Qampie passes by root vegetables and fruit for sale by the plate full near the office where she works as an assistant in downtown Johannesburg (Joberg), South Africa. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Poppy Qampie serves coffee to a fellow employee at Options in Training, a job-skills-teaching company based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is a longtime office assistant. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Children at the neighborhood daycare in Soweto, South Africa with traces of breakfast on their faces: pap (corn meal mixed with water). Published in Material World, page 24. This is the daycare center where Simon's son George and nephew Mateo attend while their parents are at work. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • Poppy Qampie offers coffee to a fellow employee at Options in Training, a job-skills-teaching company based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is an office assistant. Published in Material World, page 24. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • The Qampie Family, March 15th, 1993, in front of their home with all of their possessions, Soweto, South Africa. Published on pages 22-23 of Material World: A Global Family Portrait. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • Simon and Poppy Qampie (center in blue shirt, and red, respectively) pose with their children and extended family outside their home outside Johannesburg, in Southwest Township, South Africa. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • The Qampie Family, March 15th, 1993, in front of their home with all of their possessions, Soweto, South Africa. Near original to image that appeared on pages 22-23 of Material World: A Global Family Portrait. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • The Qampie Family, March 15th, 1993, in front of their home with all of their possessions, Soweto, South Africa. Published on pages 22-23 of Material World: A Global Family Portrait. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • Leah and Anna, Poppy Qampie's mother and sister, respectively, visit in the kitchen of Poppy's house in Soweto, South Africa. Published in Material World page 27. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • Rain delay during the shooting of the Material World big picture in South Africa. The Qampie family had to cover all their possessions, which had already been moved outside, during the brief but fierce thunderstorm that swept across Soweto. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • The Samuel Msomi family in Soweto, South Africa with all their possessions in the back yard of their house. This family was not chosen for the Material World book, but they are, like the Qampie family in the book, statistically average for South Africa.
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  • Funeral of a 29-year-old woman (a neighbor of the Qampies) in Soweto, South Africa. The funeral is in a tent set up on the street outside the family's home in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Simon Qampie brushes his teeth over a bucket in the bedroom of his family's house in Southwest Township (called Soweto), South Africa. They have running water in the kitchen only, and their toilet is an outhouse in their backyard. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Soweto, outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Getting to work is a scary daily business for Simon and Poppy Qampie, because the train that picks them up at the Phomolong station in Soweto, South Africa, is often boarded by machete and gun wielding thugs. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Children at the neighborhood daycare in Soweto, South Africa eat a breakfast, and a lunch, of hot pap porridge: corn meal mixed with water. This is the daycare center where Simon's son George and nephew Mateo attend while their parents are at work. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • The Qampie Family, March 15th, 1993, in front of their home with all of their possessions, Soweto, South Africa. Near original to image that appeared on pages 22-23 of Material World: A Global Family Portrait. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • The Quampie children and a few of their friends play 'ring around the rosie? on a Sunday afternoon in front of their house in Soweto, South Africa.  The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Butcher shop in downtown Johannesburg (Joberg), South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Roadside advertisement for Rama butter spread on an overpass at the minibus station in Soweto, South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Toilet outhouse belonging to the Qampie Family, Soweto, South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Regina Mundi Catholic Church Service, Soweto, South Africa. This church is the largest church in Soweto (South West Township, outside Johannesburg). Material World Project.
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  • Fruit for sale in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • View of the shantytown called "Silvertown", near Soweto, outside Johannesburg, South Africa. Architecture. Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Simon Qampie cuts the grass around his family's tiny house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg), South Africa. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, pages 22-23. Material World Project.
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  • The bells of Regina Mundi Church ring out, calling the faithful to Soweto's largest Roman Catholic Church for Sunday service, where they receive communion. Published in Material World on page 26. South Africa.
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  • View of the shantytown called "Silvertown", near Soweto, outside Johannesburg, South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • View of the shantytown called "Silvertown", near Soweto, outside Johannesburg, South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Downtown Johannesburg, South Africa at dusk. Material World Project.
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  • Poppy and Simon Qampie's main purchase at a supermarket is always corn meal, which they mix with water to form what is known as pap: hot cornmeal porridge. Published in Material World page 25..The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • Downtown Johannesburg, South Africa at dusk. Architecture. Published in Material World page 25. Material World Project.
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  • Getting to work can be frightening for Poppy Qampie and her husband Simon. The trains that come into Phomolong station in Soweto are often boarded by machete and gun wielding thugs. The danger posed by robbers is so great that sometimes Poppy opts for a minibus ride instead; although that too has become a dangerous form of transportation in recent years. Published in Material World pages 24 & 25. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • Poppy Qampie irons Simon's shirt in the kitchen of their Soweto home before she leaves for work as her mother, Leah, looks on. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg), South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Orlando Soccer Stadium fans during a Pirates vs. Durban game. Like many soccer stadiums around the world, the playing field is securely fenced to protect the team from the fans. Soweto, South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Portrait of Poppy Qampie's mother Leah Nosizwe, 64 in the kitchen of their Soweto home. She sleeps in the second small bedroom with the children.  The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg), South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Fuzbol (also spelled fusbol) players and merchants outside the Grand Mosque, Djenne, Mali. Africa, Games, Muslim, Islam, Religion, Africa.
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  • Environs. Flowering "Desert Rose" bush/tree in a dry steam bed area of the Sahel in Eastern Chad, near the Breidjing Refugee Camp. The Adenium or "Desert Rose" is an extraordinary tropical plant. Coming essentially from East Africa, where it is found under different "subspecies" in countries like Sudan, Yemen, Socotra , Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.).
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  • Grasshoppers, with the wings removed, in the hand of a Vendan child in northeastern South Africa, collected from the field near his village. After a half-hour foraging, the grasshoppers are brought back to one of the mothers to cook and then the children eat them with porridge. The children couldn't agree on whether meat or insects taste best but all agree that the grasshoppers, as well as mopane worms, winged termites, and locusts are enjoyable. Masetoni Village, (Venda). South Africa. (Man Eating Bugs page 7 Top Left. See also page 136-137)
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  • The Northern Province of South Africa, formerly the Northern Transvaal and now called the Mpumalanga, is home to the Vendan people. Here, Muditami Munzhedzi, in traditional Venda clothing, prepares the Vendan's daily staple of cornmeal porridge as well as mopane worms. Tshamulavhu, Mpumalanga, South Africa. "Mopane" refers to the mopane tree, which the caterpillar eats. Dried mopane worms have three times the protein content of beef and can be stored for many months. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • The Northern Province of South Africa, formerly the Northern Transvaal and now called the Mpumalanga, is home to the Vendan people. Here, Muditami Munzhedzi, in traditional Venda clothing, prepares the Vendan's daily staple of cornmeal porridge as well as mopane worms. Tshamulavhu, Mpumalanga, South Africa. (Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects)
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  • Mopane worms dry in the sun after being cleaned and boiled in salted water. The harvest of mopane worms (dried, they have three times the amount of protein as beef) is a major economic event in Botswana. Whole families move into the countryside and set up camp in order to collect the worms. While mopane worms are eaten in Botswana, they are a coveted form of protein in South Africa as well and have been largely over-harvested there. (page 126)
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  • The Qampie children and a few of their friends play 'ring around the rosie? on a Sunday afternoon in front of their house in Soweto, South Africa. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Child, Games. Material World Project.
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  • A haulage truck on the trans-Kalahari highway near the Botswana border in Namibia. With no comprehensive railway networks to move cargo between countries in southern Africa, haulage trucks serve as the primary means of transport for the bulk of regional trade.
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  • A teen-age boy snacking on dried, salted mopane worms near Lanseria, South Africa. Eaten dry the worms are hard, crispy, and woody tasting. The worms are so popular in South Africa that they have been over-harvested and are now only abundant in neighboring Botswana. "Mopane" refers to the mopane tree, which the caterpillar eats. Dried mopane worms have three times the protein content of beef and can be stored for many months. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Worshipers perform ritual washing before prayers at the Grand Mosque in Djenne, Mali. Africa.
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  • Market day in Koukourou, Mali. Africa. Grain trader Soumana Natomo (at right in blue) opens a sack of grain at the Saturday market in his village of Kouakourou, on the banks of the Niger River, between the market town of Mopti, and Djenne. One of his two wives, Pama Kondo (in yellow) measures rice for a customer. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001.
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  • Grain trader Soumana Natomo (in blue) negotiates prices during market day in Kouakourou, Mali. Africa, Work. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001.
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  • Vibrant colors in a mud and plaster walled room in a house in Djenne, Mali. Africa.
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  • A soccer match, and later a TV crime show from Los Angeles, on a black and white car-battery-powered television holds a large, rapt audience of village men outside the barber's area in Kouakourou, Mali. The car battery is recharged by a photovoltaic solar cell on the roof of the barbershop. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001. Africa.
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  • Soumana Natomo waves to a fellow villager in Koukourou, a mud walled village on the banks of the Niger River, between the market town of Mopti, and Djenne, Mali. Africa.
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  • Raising the flag before school in the village of Kouakourou, Mali. Children, Child, Africa. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001.
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  • Used shoes for sale along railway tracks in the Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Kibera is Africa's biggest slum with nearly one million inhabitants.
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  • Tilapia ready for sale on a market stall in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya.  Kibera is Africa's biggest slum with nearly one million inhabitants.
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  • Kids playing on a street in the Kibera slum,  Africa's largest slum settlement where nearly a million people live in grinding poverty, with no access to running water and ablution facilities.
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  • A vendor fries fish for sale in the Kibera slum, Africa's largest slum settlement with nearly one million inhabitants, the majority of whom have no access to running water and ablution facilities.
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  • Nearly a million people live in makeshift houses made of plastic, cardboard and corrugated iron sheets in Kibera slum, Africa's largest slum settlement located in Nairobi, Kenya.  Providing affordable housing remains one of the key challenges of the Kenyan government.
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  • Nearly a million people live in makeshift houses made of plastic, cardboard and corrugated iron sheets in the Kibera slum, Africa's largest slum settlement located in Nairobi, Kenya.
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  • Dogs fight in dirt blackened by the burning of garbage in a tight-knit slum settlement in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya. Kibera is Africa's largest slum, with more than 1 million inhabitants.
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  • Bamako, the captial of Mali in W. Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Most women in Africa are excellent multi-taskers. Here a woman offers peanuts for sale to passersby on a dirt path in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, and uses the time between customers to spin cotton thread. Material World Project.
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  • The mud walled Grand Mosque, in Djenne, Mali provides an impressive backdrop to daily life for foraging goats. Work, Muslim, Islam, Religion, Architecture. Africa.
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  • A young boy walks by two goats and a stream of raw sewage flowing through a street, Djenne, Mali. The culprit seems to be incremental progress; running water has been introduced into households in Djenne, but there is no sewage system to take care of the resulting effluent. Africa.
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  • Men pass the mud walled Grand Mosque, in Djenne, Mali. Muslim, Islam, Religion, Africa.
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  • Woman at the Saturday market in Kouakourou, Mali. Africa.
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  • Mal.mw2.70.xs..Young girl with tightly woven hair, Kouakourou, Mali. Child, Children, Africa..
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  • Freshly slaughtered beef on a cart, for sale in the village of Kouakourou, Mali. Africa.
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  • A young girl pays attention to her teacher in math class in Kouakourou village public school, Mali. Africa, Child, Children, Education. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001.
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  • Red-gold sunset near the village of Kouakourou, Mali, Africa. This man has come from a neighboring village to the Saturday market on his motorbike. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001.
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  • Fried tilapia from Lake Victoria is ready for customers at Roseline Amondi's market stall in the Kibera Slum, Nairobi Kenya. Kibera is Africa's biggest slum with nearly one million inhabitants.  (Roseline Amondi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Nearly a million people live in makeshift houses made of plastic, cardboard and corrugated iron sheets in the Kibera slum, Africa's largest slum settlement located in Nairobi, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Fried tilapia from Lake Victoria is ready for customers at Roseline Amondi's market stall in the Kibera Slum, Nairobi Kenya. Kibera is Africa's biggest slum with nearly one million inhabitants.  (Roseline Amondi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Fishmongers sort tilapia on a market stall before  frying it and selling it to passing customers in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya.  Kibera is Africa's biggest slum with nearly one million inhabitants.
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  • A man rakes muck out of open sewer outside microloan beneficiary Roseline Amondi's small restaurant in the Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya. (Roseline Amondi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The raking of muck raises the level of the street over time.  Trash is also burned in the dirt street, as the streets and alley are too narrow for garbage collection, and even fire engines, raising the risk of huge slum fires. Kibera is Africa's biggest slum with nearly one million inhabitants.
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  • A girl buys a pastry made from fried dough from a vendor in the Kibera slum, Nairobi Kenya. Kibera is Africa's biggest slum with nearly one million inhabitants., most of whom have limited access to clean water and sanitation.
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  • A girl buys a fried pastry from a vendor in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya. Kibera is Africa's biggest slum with nearly one million inhabitants.
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  • A butcher prepares meat for sale at a butchery in the Kibera slum, Africa's largest slum settlement with nearly one million inhabitants.
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  • Slum dwellers walk along railway tracks at sunset in the Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya. Kibera is Africa's biggest slum with nearly one million inhabitants.
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  • Men engage in a game of tug-of-war in the Kibera slum, Nairobi Kenya. Kibera is Africa's biggest slum with nearly one million inhabitants.
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  • Catherine Lemekwana with a mopane worm stew she prepared for her family using dried mopane worms, onions, garlic, salt, and curry in her home in Soweto, (South West Township), Johannesberg, South Africa. The harvest of mopane worms is a major economic event in Botswana where whole families move into the countryside and set up camp in order to collect the worms. Dried mopane worms have three times the protein content of beef and can be stored for many months. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Earthen walled, thatch roofed graineries in the village of Somo, Mali (West Africa). Material World Project.
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  • A village farmer near the Breidjing Refugee Camp in eastern Chad, near the Sudan border, shows stalks of freshly harvested millet, a staple grain in this part of Africa. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Children queue for water at a communal watering point in the Kibera slum, in Nairobi, Kenya. Kibera is Africa's largest slum, with more than 1 million inhabitants.
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  • Kids playing on a street in the Kibera slum,  Africa's largest slum settlement where nearly a million people live in grinding poverty, with no access to running water and ablution facilities.
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  • A lioness lying in the grass at dawn in Kruger National Park. Northern Transvaal, South Africa.
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  • A Vendan woman stirs a pot of grasshoppers that the kids have just collected. She cooks the de-winged grasshoppers in oil and they are eaten with cornmeal porridge. Masetoni, Mpumalanga, South Africa. (Man Eating Bugs page 137B)
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  • Elephant crossing the road in Kruger National Park. North Transvaal, South Africa.
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  • Typical round homes in Ha-Matiyane Village, Venda (North Transvaal) South Africa.
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  • A smiling woman in a pink shirt picking tea leaves on the plantation of the Tshivhase Tea Estate in Venda (North Transvaal), South Africa.
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  • Picking tea leaves on the plantation of the Tshivhase Tea Estate in Venda (North Transvaal), South Africa.
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  • Mopane worm merchants in the central market of Thohoyandou serve as the intermediaries between the worm wholesalers and individual customers. "Mopane" refers to the mopane tree, which the caterpillar eats. Dried mopane worms have three times the protein content of beef and can be stored for many months. Eaten dry the worms are hard, crispy, and woody tasting. Thohoyandou, South Africa. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Thirteen-year-old Venda youth, Azwifarwi, with his homemade Mercedes crafted of scrap wire, foam rubber and wood in order to push and steer around his village, Tshamulavhu village, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Mopane worm sellers in a South African market in Thohoyandou claim the lack of rain to be attributable for the smaller than normal supply of the insects. Mpumalanga, South Africa. "Mopane" refers to the mopane tree, which the caterpillar eats. Dried mopane worms have three times the protein content of beef and can be stored for many months. (Man Eating Bugs page 127) .
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  • Thirteen-year-old Venda youth, Azwifarwi, with his homemade Mercedes crafted ingeniously and artistically out of scrap wire, foam rubber and wood in order to push and steer around his village, Mpumalanga, South Africa. (Man Eating Bugs page 140,141)
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  • Vendan children sweep through a grassy field hunting for grasshoppers outside their small village of Masetoni, Mpumalanga, South Africa. (Man Eating Bugs page 136)
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  • Tshamulavhu Village wooden outhouse in rural Northern Transvaal (Venda), South Africa.
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  • Village women outside their round house making traditional beer from the fruit of the marula tree in Tshamulavhu Village, Venda, South Africa.
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  • A male lion lying in the grass at dawn in Kruger National Park. Northern Transvaal, South Africa.
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  • A typical roundhouse in Mingha Village, Venda (North Transvaal) South Africa.
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