AFRIKA

What a magnet for preconception. Unruly or lazy mobs, unwilling to work unless whipped, illiterate pagans, dishonest, stinking. This was the Africa I grew up with, thanks to Hemingway and Kipling and every teacher in every school I attended. I get there and find the hardest working people on the planet, the most honest, artistic, ambitious, beautiful. I keep going back, and my first impression deepens; what a different place my neighborhood would be if every teenager were sent for a year to Africa, to work and learn. The best lesson they'd bring back is that elders have respect for the young. I don't want to hear any of that respect-your-elders crap, because most of the elders I know have done nothing but take from the planet, often in my name. The elders I met in Africa taught me to keep earning the respect of others, even from the young brats, to my dying day.

See preview photo collection from PYGMY GYTAR, a PDF by Blue.

See preview photo collection from AFRIKA AWALI, a book by Blue.

serengeti by steve correl