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An elaborate hairstyle of a young Hamar man nears completion by his friend; The Hamar of Southwest Ethiopia are semi-nomadic pastoralists whose whole way of life is based on the needs of their stock
A Hamar woman is left with bloody wheals, which were inflicted during a Hamar Jumping of the Bull ceremony when female friends
During a Jumping of the Bull ceremony.; The semi-nomadic Hamar of Southwest Ethiopia embrace an age-grade system that includes several rites of passage for young men
Two pretty Karo girls in traditional attire. Most girls pierce a hole below the lower lip in which they place a thin piece of metal or a nail for decoration
Karo men excel in body art. They decorate their faces and torsos elaborately using local white chalk, pulverised rock and other natural pigments
A Dassanech man ferries people in a large dug-out canoe across the crocodile-infested waters of the Omo River near its delta at the northern end of Lake Turkana
An old Dassanech man wearing a traditional lip ornament and earrings. The old practice of piercing the flesh below a mans lower lip for decorative purposes is fast dieing out.The Dassanech people
An unusual braided hairstyle of a Dassanech young man of the Omo River Delta.The Omo Delta of southwest Ethiopia is one of the least accessible and least developed parts of East Africa
A Kwego woman grinds sorghum flour at the entrance to her hut. The Kwego are a Nilotic tribe of semi-nomadic pastoralists who live along the banks of the Omo River in south-western Ethiopia
A young Dassanech boy silhouetted against the evening sky at his settlement alongside the Omo River. Much the largest of the tribes in the Omo Valley numbering around 50, 000
A Nyangatom boy catches blood from the artery of a cow in a gourd. The cow is bled by firing an arrow with a very short head into the artery of the cow
Hamar men paint themselves with white chalk and ochre and decorate their hair with feathers and leaves prior to a bull -jumping ceremony, a rite of passage to manhood. Ethiopia, Omo Valley
A Hamar woman in the village square of Dimeka. Married women wear two heavy steel necklaces. This woman wears an extra necklace with steel a steel phallic symbol which identifies her as a first wife
Nicaragua, Corn Islands, Little Corn Island, Garret Point
Ghana, Volta region, Shairi. Grinding tomatoes into paste in the traditional way
Ghana, Ashanti region, Kumasi. President Kuffour in traditional adinkra robes at the Manhyia palace of the Ashanti King
Ghana, Northern region, Tamale. A Muslim prays at a Mosque in Tamale during Ramadan
Ghana, Northern Region, Larabanga. The Imam stands outside the thirteenth century mosque at Larabanga, near Mole National park
Ghana, Volta Region, Shairi. Rainforests hug the mountainous borders of Ghana and Togo
Ghana, Western region, Ankasa Reserve. A guide stands beside a giant buttress rooted tree in the rainforest reserve at Ankasa
Ghana, Northern region, Mole National Park. A kob antelope in Mole National Park
Ghana, Northern region, Mole National Park. A monkey yawns in Mole National Park safe from being eaten as bushmeat
Ghana, Northern region, Mole National Park. Elephants outside Mole National Park, eating trees and crops
Ghana, Northern region, Mole National Park. Elephants in Mole National Park
Ghana, Western region, Ankasa Reserve. Maxwells Duiker, one of the many mammals found in Ankasa Reserve
Ghana, Central region, Elmina. Elmina Castle, aka St Georges Slave Fort - the oldest European building south of the Sahara. Scene of horrors and degradation
Ghana, Ashanti region, Kumasi. Kegetia is Kumasis main market and one of the largest in West Africa
Ghana, Central region, Kakum National Park. Kakum National Park has the only aerial walkway in Ghana
Ghana, Greater Accra, Accra. A statue at Legon University in Accra celebrating education
Ghana, Brong Ahafo region, Kintampo. Tourists at Kintampo Falls, one of Ghanas many waterfalls
A Mursi woman wearing a large clay lip plate. Shortly before marriage, a girls lower lip will be pierced and progressively stretched over a year or so
