gambaga - village of witches

last weekend we went to gambaga - its a village where witches life!
we went there, and the first step to visit the witches was to see the chief. you have to meet him to get permission to visit this part of the village.
there are witches  from ghana as well as from togo and burkina faso. these women are considered to be witches because maybe there has been a desease in the village, because of the way a chicken died when it was slaughtered,... there are plenty of reasons why women can be considered to be witches. and in a normal village they are abused, tortured or even killed. in gambaga they live under the protection of the chief. and the chief is said to have some medicine which takes away the witch power of these women...

see some pictures of gambaga

kids were welcoming us

thats where the "witches" live

working

a kitchen

in the village

all the waste goes down here

another "witch"

as everywhere we were followed by many children

one old witch

she had a great expression in the face!

 this woman looked so cool! but as you can see on the first picture she was demanding something (money). so i gave her 1 cedi, 50 euro cents (by far too much money for some pictures, but she was so funny)...and i made some pictures with her. but she was always looking so angry that i dont want to put a picture here!

pregnant goats

in gambaga

tired brother

some of the kids that followed us

people we met in the streets

coming home from the field

a girl selling sweet mangos

the "main witch" is on the left

looking outside at the "sulminga"

this is africa...

...too much africa!

collecting firewood

weaver bird

i am too hapy, i have a new camera, and it has a better zoom...its not perfect, but much better than the old one.

all the best, have a nice sunday!!!