Nothing says “Monrovia” like palm trees, barbed wire, and concrete walls.
About Scarlett Lion
I’m an American photographer and journalist traipsing around Africa on the lookout for the ordinary and the extraordinary, using my camera as a pretext to enter worlds not otherwise available.
This space is a scrap book of web and life trawlings – photography, music, arts, politics, and other sundry subjects. It is also a vanity press for my unpublished (and occasionally) published work.
I found the scarlett lion on the roof a friend’s house in Kampala back in 2006 when I went through a crate of discarded items he and a few other artists had gathered. On that day, I was looking for something and I found the lion: a discarded kid’s toy made in China on the cheap, that somehow found it’s way to East Africa. Something about the hollowed out, paint chipped figurine appealed to my understanding of this amazing continent: I’d never seen a real lion, after all.
Previously based in Uganda, currently in Liberia. Always roaming.
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hallo
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How are you? Ths blog is fantastic!! really!!!
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Great blog! I can’t agree more with regard to Monrovia. I’m a Canadian based in Ghana for the past 13 years. I travel to Monrovia about twice a year and have done so for the past few years. Nothing describers it better than a photo like your above.
I found your blog through the 2009 weblog awards. Congrats! It’s great.
I’ve listed you on my blogroll. Please visit me at Holli’s Ramblings as well and hey if you like, you could list me on yours!
Keep up the great writing.
Holli in Ghana
http://www.hollisramblings.blogspot.com
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