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Mabu49 online launches today - www.mabu49.com.

  Take a look at our editorial. A big thanks goes out to Motheo Moeng (@motheomodaguru/http://motheomodaguru.tumblr.com), our brilliant photographer, and Reabetswe Kamohelo Rorisang Maarohanye and Tumi ‘Tumz’ Makgakga, our amazing models. Styling and makeup by Ntokozo Kunene. 

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…the small country of Burkina Faso near the border to Ghana…with the plentiful raw materials available the Kassena people make some of the most culturally rich and architecturally beautiful villages, such as this one in Tiébélé…the dwellings occupy a community of just over one hectare…and are made of a sun-dried mix of clay, soil, straw and cow droppings moistened to a perfect mortar, mixed by foot to create strong pottery-like structures.

much more, here. via thesmithian

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Bwaka Woman - Photographer Casimir Zagourski

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Ethiopia: Peoples Of The Omo Valley | Photographed By Hans Silvester

Buy the book here.

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Mursi woman from Ethiopia

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Dassanech man from Ethiopia

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Female Basotho initiates

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Female Basotho initiates - photograph by Greg Marinovich

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