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Drinking from the Stream is a tale of modern Africa. The story takes place in 1971, 1972 and 1973, a time of violent upheaval when the Vietnam War and the Chinese...

Sometimes great events touch us deeply.

In June 1972 when I was twenty-two years old I was sitting in a student cafeteria at the University of Luanda reading the International...

This began as a bit of a joke. People we knew in Niamey flocked to take “New Year's pictures." So why not us? We had just arrived from Zaire (Democratic Republic of the Congo)...

It’s freezing cold in the desert in winter, except for a few hours in the afternoon. Here I’m shivering in a keffiyeh, dark sunglasses, and Vietnam jacket.

Crossing the Sahara was a big deal but not unusually dangerous in the mid-1970s. The main challenge was the 1600 kilometers (1000 miles) between Agadez, Niger and In Salah,...

The town of Mokolo in Northern Cameroon is the center of what was then a fairly thriving tourist industry. We were astounded that shopkeepers there were willing to rent bicycles...

My traveling buddy (David) and I spent many hours waiting on dirt roads amid crowds of curiosity seekers for a truck to pass. Truckers often drove powerful Fiat diesel tractor...

This time the author asked for his picture to be taken.

These young ladies asked to have their picture taken but were disappointed when the film had to stay in the camera.

This arresting image of a young Galla woman was snapped by my traveling partner in or near the town of Mega in southern Ethiopia. Cameras were scarce in those days and so were...