Photographs from the northern Sahel
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Pier of the pirogues on the river Niger - Kabara - Mali - 1969
A fisherman with his pirogue on the Niger River in the Mopti area. - Mali - 1969
Near Mopti - Boats on the Niger River - Mali - 1969
A transport boat on the Niger River near Gao - Mali - 1969
Sunset over the Niger River near Kabara, Mali. A 13-kilometre-long artificial canal connected Kabara with Timbuktu since the 17th century. The canal was used by pirogues and sailing ships. It served to transport people and goods and connected Timbuktu with the Niger. This canal dried up again and again in modern times and is now silted up and only visible as a ditch in some places. - Mali - 1969
The port of Mopti on the Niger River. Mopti is particularly characterised by trade and crafts. The city is a trading centre for fish, cattle and grain. Important crafts are weaving, iron and leather processing, pottery and boat building (pinasses up to 50 tons). - Mali - 1969
The pirogue is the most popular means of transport on the Chari River - Chad - 1967
The fishermen on Lake Chad are experts at driving pirogues- Chad - 1967
There are waterholes that dry up only a few weeks before each rainy season. And yet ... after a sharp bend in the track, a river appears, a real river with much deep water, which nothing has foreseen: The Chari is barely indicated by the vegetation of its banks ... - Chad - 1967
