Mosquito coast : travels from Maputo to Mogadishu / Guillaume Bonn ; foreword by John Lee Anderson

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Summary: In his documentary work, photographer Guillaume Bonn (born in Madagascar) has been recording social and political events in Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania, or Somalia for publications such as the New York Times, Guardian Magazine, and Vanity Fair. Called the Miskito or Mosquito Coast after its indigenous people, eastern Africa is currently experiencing a transformation; mosquito- and malaria-ridden, marked by the traces of dictatorship and war, at the mercy of the consumption and commerce of the Western world. Guillaume Bonn photographs present the old Africa in its unrelentingly vibrant native culture in the midst of modern skyscrapers, new highways, and what are purported to be technical improvements.

2015

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