“Fish are gold here,” the diver fisherman whispered to me as we stood above the wharf, watching the theatre of arrival below. As boats come into port in Monte Cristi – a historic Dominican fishing town– crowds of friends, colleagues and fishmongers gather to greet them, either hoping to score a few pounds of conch, lobster, and fish, or – in the case of fishmongers – attempting to make sure the entire boatload isn’t gifted away.
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The telling of tales entertains and offers lessons in life. But beware the triskter spider or mischievous goat…
“I am Ethiopian just like my neighbor who was born and grew here.” These words were spoken by Ras Henry, a mature Rastafari man who migrated 12,000 kilometers from Jamaica to Ethiopia in the 1970s. Like many other Rastafari, Ras Henry took up the offer of land in the southern Ethiopian city of Shashamane.