Just a guess here, but a lollipop and a biscuit are probably not a monkey’s natural diet.
I’m Glenna Gordon, an American photographer and journalist, presently commuting between West Africa and Brooklyn. Previously, I lived in Liberia. And before that, I lived in Uganda. I’ve traveled and worked in over a dozen countries in Africa.
This blog is named after a found object — a plastic lion that was in a crate of discarded items a friend and a few other artists had gathered. I sat on their roof in Nakasero, Kampala sorting through the crate. On that day, I was looking for something. “You are lost!” a Uganda might say. But, I’d found this discarded kid’s toy, made in China on the cheap, that somehow ended up in East Africa. Something about the hollowed out, paint-chipped figurine appealed to my understanding of this place: I’d never seen a real lion, after all.
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Just a guess here, but a lollipop and a biscuit are probably not a monkey’s natural diet.
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Earl Burrowes, Sr. says:
If the Liberian parable “hard time make monkey eat pepper” is true, then this must be “easy street” for this little fella (or gal) – for now, at least.
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— December 1, 2009 @ 7:05 pm
Kurtis says:
Ha. I love this picture.
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— December 1, 2009 @ 7:05 pm
Mark Palmquist says:
That monkey looks like he has a worried look on his face. Monkeys are distressed by poverty too.
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— December 1, 2009 @ 7:26 pm
Holli says:
He needs a banana!!!
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— December 1, 2009 @ 8:13 pm
jina says:
I dunno… YOU would feed that monkey to softly-softly, so I say it can have whatever it wants as a last meal.
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— December 1, 2009 @ 10:05 pm
glenna says:
That reminds me… must write a post on softly-softlys and their possible monkey eating habits.
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— December 1, 2009 @ 10:10 pm
Miss Footloose says:
That monkey has very sad eyes! But he’s all in one piece, and eating SOMETHING.
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— December 2, 2009 @ 3:57 pm