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Festival sur le Niger, 2008, Segou, Mali.

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Manfred is creator of ThisFabTrek.com, photography and journey, a travel blog (since 2004).

Understand and tolerate, report and photograph, enjoy and live - inhale different concepts of life (all that TV [and the web] cannot give). Reject jealousy, animosity, bigotry. Be free.

Manfred in the desert of the Western Sahara

The mind, when pondering at night has always asked those questions. What are you doing in corporate wonderland, banking, university, office, church. Who is the other animal asleep inside, thinker, punk, creative, cowboy, vagabond, anarchist, healer, artist, writer, photographer, globe trotter, intellectual? Oh God dare you to think.

So when he sees the gamble, manipulations and lies he follows the old old dream, sets out for this journey that is called life, explore the world traveling overland.

Manfred is father of twin boys, Daniel and David.

ThisFabTrek is ongoing. Photography and Journey, Story of Life Around the World, Music, Art, Festivals and Love and Peace. Photography and articles are for sale.

Daniel David, in Land Rover 6x6x, beach in Djembereng, Casamance, Senegal

Daniel and David on Bonnet of Land Rover 6x6x, on way to Casamance Senegal, eating Bananas.

Daniel and David with nanny Aisha, the best we ever had, black African Woman carrying white twin babies, in Bamako, Mali.

6 wheeled Land Rover.

The vehicle of the Africa adventures, a Foley 6-Wheeled Land Rover Defender.

Land Rover 56,608km

Trekking 335km

Ferry 1,514km

Train 238km

Other cars 43,399km

The Journey.

contains Festival/Art photography.

www.thisfabtrek.com > journey > africa > mali > 20080201-segou

Festival sur le Niger.

Pirogue, sunset.

Habib Koité and Bamada.

Official page. There is a new CD, Afriki, since I have seen him 2 years ago. He is the comrade, the likable star here, and he goes off stage, unintendedly into the water, a near swim. His music Malian folksiness, jazzy, bluesy, all we have come here for.

Habib Koite.

Boubacar Sidibe.

Second guitar to Habib Koité.

Boubacar Sidibe.

Mangala Camara.

He is really cool, has style. And his music is a big discovery for me this year, what a voice. There is a long interview in French on Maliweb. He is a griot.

Mangala Camara.

Festival sur le Niger, 2008, 4th edition, Segou, Mali, Mangala Camara, on stage.

Abdoulaye Diabaté.

Griot, megastar in Mali.

Abdoulaye Diabate, Festival sur le Niger, 2008, 4th edition, Segou, Mali.

Abdoulaye Diabaté.

singing for him...

Madina N'Diaye.

Blind female Malian kora artist/songwriter. (myspace)

Madina N'Diaye

A lot more from Segou, turn page.

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