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About Lobi: Impressions from the land of the lobi
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Special thanks to Jean-David Levy, who has taken the following photos.
A typical road with lateritic soil in the south of Burkina Faso.
Here a „sukala“, the traditional house of Lobi people, can be seen ...
… with fortified walls, so that they can be defended easily …
... two children in front of house walls ...
… the soothsayer inside his shrine …
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... around the houses the cattle are grazing ...
... the little house in the front is a granary ...
... a flat- roof in the form of a terrace, where the crop is being dried ...
... the surroundings of the house of a soothsayer ...
... traditional pottery exclusively made by Lobi women ...
... the houses don´t stand close together. The minimum distance between two sukalas is the length of an arrow flight.