Stories

Reports, portraits and interviews from the villages. This is where we write down what the camera could not say.

At five in the morning, Aïssatou lights the fire before anyone is awake. Nobody argues with the time she sets.

6 September 2026 · 8 min read

Trucks from Guinea, Mali and The Gambia unload in the dark. By seven, the whole thing is a city.

30 August 2026 · 11 min read

There is no single everyday word for “week” in Pulaar. There are market days, and there is everything between them.

24 August 2026 · 6 min read

Ousmane has been weaving for forty-one years. Neither of his sons intends to take over, and he says he understands.

16 August 2026 · 9 min read

For twenty years the valleys were too salty to plant. Then a group of women started rebuilding the dykes by hand.

9 August 2026 · 12 min read

A griot in Gabú sings a lineage that runs through three modern countries without pausing at any of them.

2 August 2026 · 10 min read