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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.

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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.

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Oct 30
2009
11:48 AM

Ellen’s Natal Day

Ellens Natal Day

Inside Ellen’s Birthday Cake

From the Analyst. HT Megan of the Niapele Project.

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, like any natal-day celebrant, clearly must be in exhilaratingly festive mood as she nets exactly 71today–an apparently zigzag and winding life journey on troubled Planet Earth.

Greenville, the remote Southeastern Port town, is reportedly afire with tumultuous celebrations amongst smarms of citizens who have been inundating the historic city and hauling eulogies on their kinswoman, the President, who is believed to draw her maternal genealogical link from that part of the country.

While the President and supporters within and without of Sinoe County are submerged in the frenzy of birthday ululation, The Analyst Staff Writer has been critically reflecting on the smiles as well as frowns which the chief celebrant’s birth has ignited amongst her people. Read More… (Really, it’s worth it.)