Omo Valley Photos

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Some photos from my time in the Omo Valley with the Dasanech and Hamer Tribes, including a Hamer 'Coming of Age' Bull-jumping ceremony up in a village in the hills near Dimeka

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Photos

Village near Turmi
Where Woodser and I stayed with a local family

Coffee!
Woodser hard at work making a brew!

Photos!
Woodser's photos get the appreciation they deserve!

Dasanech Girls
in Omorate village, near the Kenyan and Sudanese borders

Female family members
Omorate

Dinner Time!
Back in our village near Turmi, a goat is chosen for dinner

Selling Hair Dye!
Ochre in Turmi Market

Ochre
Hair dye!

Selling snuff!
Turmi Market

My Hamer family in Dimeka
I stayed with these guys whilst trying to find out where I might attend a bull-jumping cermeony

Comments

[anonymous]

Ethiopia i miss it! those photos make me want to go back for more!

[ayyaz]

hi hello dears how are you nice pics
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[Peter Korie Akol]

Thank you so much for this wonderful pictures! it made me cry when I saw all good pictures from my home land. a bit of myself am peter Korie Akol. A daasanach from Omo rate. Study in Kenya at Pan Africa Christian University. Pursue a bachelor of Art in Business leadership. Just want to thank you for taking your time to exposing my people to the world. I have a big dream for my people (Daasanach) since we are still back interms of many things like education, development and many other things that the outside world has already realized. My deram is to Stop The current practices daasanach are practicing for Example (F.G.M) Female Genital Mutilation, One knife circurmcision, resistant of taking children to school with perception that they will disappear. All This dream are in my blogsite PETERSCAUSE.BLOGSPOT.COM I know you will recognise many things I have meantion in this blog. God bless you. peter