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Blessed by a Marabout – spiritual healers, Koranic scholars – in West Africa
‘A Short Walk in the Gambian Bush – 930km African odyssey‘ 2009 When we stayed with Alkalo, Fatou Dansu (one of only 5 female chiefs, at the time, in The Gambia), in the town of Basse, we met a strange, yet intriguing, old man called Mr Bah. Outwardly, he reminded me the obsequious UriahContinue reading “Blessed by a Marabout – spiritual healers, Koranic scholars – in West Africa”
Press: Jason Florio in Lagos, Nigeria, for Bloomberg Markets
March 2015 Press Images © Jason Florio – for Bloomberg Markets (photo agent: Redux Pictures, NYC). Read the feature here – words by Gavin Serkin
Press: ‘The Spirit of the Seaside’ – walking along the coastline of The Gambia, West Africa
March-May 2015 – Wings Magazine/Arik Air “As my wife, Helen, and I set off on an 80km six-day ramble along the sun-soaked coast of The Gambia’s relatively short coastline, it’s not merely the splendour of the coast and heat of the sun we are after but also its mystical heritage… ” read the wholeContinue reading “Press: ‘The Spirit of the Seaside’ – walking along the coastline of The Gambia, West Africa”
