I have many stories from my three week visit to Guinea. Some harrowing, others boring to endure in both the experience and in, perhaps, the telling.
These photos are from the village Oroko (or Woroko or Ourouko) I visited. My drum teacher Wadaba and his family call this place home. I am glad to finally see this place. It is an extreme place and the lifestyle here demands everything and in doing so, the interconnections between family and community become paramount.
To get there we had to cross the Niger River, which is very wide, yet very shallow.
Forgive some of the focus problems on this video: low lighting and smoke gave me a challenge, but I hope the fun and mystery of the village Fet, or celebration, is conveyed. The hosts were so generous, they even performed a mask dance, which is unheard of according to many who've ventured to haut Guinea in these modern times.
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