In February 1974, Pam Sambo Zima, the oldest of the priests of possession in Niamey, Niger, died at the age of seventy-plus years. In his backyard, the followers from the possession cult symbolically break the dead priest's ritual vases and cry for the deceased while dividing up the clothes of the divinities.
Rites and operation of the circumcision of thirty Songhai children on the Niger. Material of this fi...

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Lightning struck the hut of a Fulani shepherd near a village of settled fishermen, Ganghel, in Niger...

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