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A Window on Africa (Ethiopian Portraits)
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A Window on Africa (Ethiopian Portraits) (Hard Copy)

~ Hans Silvester (Author)
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Kibish, on the borders of Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan, is a village unlike any other. Far from any city and with an unforgiving climate, it has nonetheless become a place where traditional lifestyles meet the contemporary world.

This book is a beguiling portrait of the people of the Omo Valley, seen through an unusual lens - that of a simple window frame. From painted, marked and scarified tribesmen to tradesmen with their tools and farmers with their animals, this collection is a priceiess record of a unique and increasingly fragile way of life, one threatened by conflict, tourism and the rapidly encroaching twenty-first century.

'My little red window has become almost a mirror image of the startling changes taking place today in Africa, where so many conflicts have arisen from the coming together of different peoples, creating a chaotic jumble of humanity that obliges vastly different cultures and languages to bond together to form some kind of community. 
    My window has captured a moment in time, nothing more, nothing less, and in its endless stream of faces we can see the diversity of humankind, its customs and its religions, in a place that the old world now has to share with the new, with strangers who are here to stay.
– Hans Silvester

Product Details
  Author: Hans Silvester
  Hard Copy: 160 (134 Illustrations, 134 in colour) pages
  Publisher: First published 2011 (2011 (First Published))
  Language: Illustrations
  ISBN-13: 978-0500515624
  Product Dimension: 0.8 x 0.1 x 1.2 inches
  Shipping Weight: 826 Grams (View shipping rates and policies)
  Note: Gift-wrapping is not available for this item.
  MPID: 6759800794
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