Friday 22 April 2016

Passage from the text... in Cameroon!

For the price of the tour, we are treated to folk dances where every beauty of the village, a small gourd filled with seeds attached to the ankle, turn around and throw shrilling yells into the air while uncaring warriors play the drums or flute. But the tribe is so tired of this kind of tourist event that they hide their boredom difficultly while moving about without any conviction. After paying another gift to the Chief, the girls reboot like clockwork, quivering their rumps, shaking their bare chests for the hunters...



Thursday 7 April 2016

Passage from the text...

In Cameroon...

The wild animal reserve of Waza is a massive one hundred and seventy thousand hectares, according to the brochure! And it is at night that we must cross it…

“Prohibited after nightfall,” the guards warn me at the entrance. No problem, I mention the name of the guide I work for and I give them a bribe and they allow me to pass.


Without tracker and map, this is madness.
I have to play it cool so as not to scare my clients too.
In the moonlight, between bush and sand, I penetrate this reserve for the first time, expecting to meet lions, elephants, panthers, antelopes, cranes, lyre, marabous and snakes


About the author

Throughout his life, Alain Dizerens has also worked in kabbutz (Israel) and Hong Kong among other places around the world. After a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and several decades of teaching, Alain Dizerens also presented a variety of "crosstalk kinetic" (dance, electro) performances in Geneva in 1986. He has written other books - Miroir-Temps and l'Arpenteur sidéral among many as well as published a number of photo e-books. Written with a poetic touch, his books quickly absorb the reader in a realistically magical universe, which at the same time never lacks a bit humour.