Photos of Africa
After Peace Corps training in San Francisco and Key West, we arrived in Liberia and had several more days "in country" training. We were then given our assignments. Jinny Hesel and I were sent to Bushrod Island, a suburb of Monrovia, to our first house, a two family home found by our director who was sending PCV's to live closer to their schools. The landlord and his family lived on the other side, but had little to do with us.
Outside the house, note the neighbor's shower.
Sarah Logan, our neighbor.
Heavy rain caused flooding around the septic tank, consequently, Peace Corps moved us out of this area into our second house.
Musu, our landlord's daughter returning after her bath.
Truck used to move from one house to the other. Nancy was the only one who could drive the standard shift.
Woman by our second house, preparing to tie her baby on her back with a piece of "lappa cloth". (A two yard piece of fabric, multi use, good for head ties, waist ties or what ever else you might need.)
Dam at Mt. Coffee in Liberia built with U.S. AID funds.
Dancers at a Presidential Birthday celebration.
Birthday celebration.
Town of Gbanga in Liberia. Birthday. October 1967.
Monrovia from the the top of the Intercontinental Hotel.
Notice the children holding yellow leaflets. These were dropped from a plane urging "Vote for President Tubman.", though he was the only candidate.
Garden Party guests at the Presidential Mansion in Monrovia, after President Tubman's inauguration. Jinny's friend Burleigh Holder got us invitations to attend. He was educated at the London School of Economics and had a high position in the government.
Back view at presidential mansion. Garden Party.
Impressive building probably in Monrovia.
Same building.
Monrovia waterfront.
Money bus in Monrovia, the major form of trasportation. People could travel anywhere for five cents but they were jammed in by the money collector at the back of the bus.
Shopping area in downtown Monrovia. See the men carrying things on their heads.
Nancy, Jinny and Burleigh with our house boy on the far left and neighbor boys on the right.
Jinny, her friend Burleigh, and Nancy.
Jinny and Nancy.
Jinny and I taught an adult literacy program at the Club Beer Brewery. We just happened to see these Sande Society initiates coming out of the woods, and we asked them to pose. The Sande society is a women's association that initiates girls into adulthood, confers fertility, instills notions of morality and proper sexual comportment.
One of the teachers that we taught with was from Robertsport in Liberia, so we visited there. Here is the church at the Episcopal Mission at Robertsport. Cuttington College, also in Robertsport and run by the Episcopalians, was one of the finest colleges in the country.
View from the hill in Robertsport.
House in Robertsport. An early Americo Liberian house, in the style of early American southern homes. Americo Liberians were descendents of freed slaves who were sent back to Africa by President Monroe as head of the American Colonization Socity.
Kids in Robertsport, Peace Corps house in the back. Made of mud then covered with cement.
Jamaica Road school. Our second school, a short walk from our first, built with U.S. AID money, nice rooms but few books or desks.
Up country Peace Corps volunteer's house.
Women preparing for a feast.
Beach near the Peace Corps's Hostel, very beautiful but treacherous currents.
Lively beach scene.
When we wanted to travel within the country, we would often go by bus as far as the road went and then hiked through the "bush", being guided by women who carried loads of supplies of market items for other people. These women were in such a hurry to go and get back, there was no time to show us interesting sights or animals. We just ran along behind them, carrying our own things. Occasionally this meant going north to walk south and get to a town that was just down the coast from us, but we couldn't afford to fly there by a small plane.
Bush up Kolahan way.
Crossing the river on a log bridge. We accepted any help we could get! I can't believe that we were so agile back then.
On our trip to the Ivory Coast, we spent a night at the Chief's house. I snapped this my favorite picture when I woke up. Boy with a goat; Whose breakfast is it anyway?
Market in the town of Bolahun. Notice the men holding hands; they were friends.
Kenya.During a summer we took a vacation in East Africa. We camped in a tent but occasionally stayed at a resort in order to shower and eat.
Keekerock Lodge life.
Clarence and friend, Masai herdsmen.
Nancy and a Masai house in Crater. Got tick in stomach here.
Masai village.
Masai woman.
Charging elephant, Masi-Mora Game Reserve.
Leisure life in a tent resort in Malindi.
Uganda.Murchison Falls in Uganda.
Hippo at Murchison Falls.
Hippo: Young 'un — from launch at Murchison Falls.
Crocodile at Murchison Falls.
Giraffe.
Giraffes.
Zanzibar.
Zanzibar street scene.
Zanzibar.
Carved door in Zanzibar.
Zanzibar.
Elephants.
Topi.
Alligator.
Giraffe at sunset.
Zebra.
Gazelle.
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Tanzania — after Arusha.
Olduvai gorge where Drs. Leaky found Zinzanthrapus Man.
Lake Manyara.
Woman of leisure at Lake Manayra.
Zebras at Lake Manyara in Tanzania.
Lion.
Lion in the bush.
Animals in the bush.
Giraffes.
Baboons on road before Ngoro Ngoro crater in Tanzania.
At Ngoro Ngoro crater.This is the largest collapsed volcanic crater in the world.
Ngoro Ngoro. Crater lodge.
Two men bowing?
We did not have established camping grounds, and there were NO conveniences. Preparing ground at Ngoro Ngoro was up to us — too many cows, cow patties were everywhere.
Our land transportation in the Crater; we needed a guide by law in order to ensure our safety.
Rhino and baby at Ngoro Ngoro Crater.
Kilamanjaro in Tanzaniya as seen from Amboseli Kenya. There were wilde beasts everywhere.