Benin, West Africa, Boukoumbé, mother and her baby in front of her traditional tata somba house with thatched roofs and granaries

Benin, West Africa, Boukoumbé, mr kouagou maxon in his tata somba house and his traditional medicine

Benin, West Africa, Boukoumbé, baby in front of a traditional tata somba house

Togo, West Africa, Nadoba, tamberma somba tribe man standing in front of an old baobab where people used to live inside the empty trunk long time ago

Togo, West Africa, Nadoba, tamberma somba tribe woman with a stone in the chin as decoration

Togo, West Africa, Nadoba, old woman inside a traditional tata somba house

Togo, West Africa, Nadoba, man standing on the roof of a traditional tata somba house

Togo, West Africa, Nadoba, traditional tata somba houses with thatched roofs and granaries

Togo, West Africa, Nadoba, somba tribe woman separating grain from chaff by wind winnowing

Togo, West Africa, Nadoba, magic voodoo trunk used to cure the snakes bites

Benin, West Africa, Koussou, a somba tribe man belly covered with linear scars

Benin, West Africa, Koussou, a somba tribe woman with her face covered with linear scars

Benin, West Africa, Koussou, a somba tribe teenager with his face covered with linear scars