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Essaouira 2006, Gnaoua Festival, 2nd day. Abdellah El Gourd, Gaada Diwane

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Friday, June 23 2006

1 year, 11 months, 1 day

Essaouira, Morocco

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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, 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 47,032km

Trekking 313km

Ferry 730km

Train 150km

Other cars 12,443km

(MB207 7,208km)

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contains Festival/Art photography.

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Gnawa/Gnaoua music was brought to Morocco by the ancestors of today's celebrated musicians, slaves, captured in Sub-Saharan Africa over the centuries.

The word Gnawa most likely is being derived from the ancient trading empire of Ghana which covered parts of Mauritania and Mali. But slaves came frome all corners of Sub Saharan Afrika. Guinea, Gambia, Tchad, Ghana etc.

Maâlem Abdellah El Gourd (Tanger).

and his Dar Gnawa troupe.

Maâlem Abdellah El Gourd.

Gaâda Diwane de Béchar (Algeria).

"Gaâda means get together, Diwane is a style of music which roots from South Algeria" Gaada.net. A bit like Gnawa but a different braket.

Gaâda Diwane de Béchar.

Group of great musicians.

... and voices ...

... sometimes mystic.

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