Image Number: APN151406
Title: Family group. Kilenso Mokonisa, Ethiopia
Path:
african.pictures /
The Media Bank /
Richard Human
Description: Boru Berise lives just down the road from the school, next door to a cycle repair workshop. Boru has 3 wives and 20 children in a single round house. Polygamy is common in this area (and there is a concern that the extra income from Fairtrade may encourage it). It is very difficult to interview because it is completely public and we are surrounded by probably 60 neighbours and their children who press in so much that we can hardly breathe. Boru has 2 ha of coffee with subsistence cabbage, maize, and enset intercropped. D tells us that people are encouraged to crop enset with coffee because it is particularly �coffee friendly�, as it is moisture giving. (I later ask D about the problem of disease which Udessa has mentioned yesterday. He says that it can be controlled biologically and that his wife is about to start work on it in a FAO funded research programme, which will cover this area.) Boru is very committed to the Cooperative and sells all his coffee to it.
Collections: Independent Photographers
Subcollections:
Richard Human
Country: Ethiopia
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 5000 x 3347
Media Id: 92_83
Credit: Richard Human / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
Keywords:
colour image ,
traditional huts,
Africa,
black African people,
horizontal,
Kilenso Mokonisa,
Ethiopia,
Boru Berise,
family,
father,
husband,
children,
,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No
