African Women Fishing and Large Fruit Bats in Mali

[MzTryingTimes]

Africa is not all that bad like people portray it to be. 

[HumboldtMike]

@MzTryingTimes Thanks for the comment. Mali is certainly one of the bright spots in Africa. I had a great experience living there. But it helps a lot to have free medical care and plenty of money for food, as well as knowing that my Peace Corps service would end and I'd be back in the USA right on schedule. Living there for real would be much more difficult than I'd care to endure. I worry for my friends there every day. The harvest is never enough, and there's instability across the borders...

[wingersx]

wow amazing fishing

[kingofmantova]

wat a bad life in africa.

[EbonyNewsChannel]

Those bats looked like giant birds. whew! 

[roelke77]

Awesome, did anyone notice one of the women wearing a leopard skin?, thats a sign of power, only people who achieved certain things in life are allowed to wear such pelt in these countries

[HumboldtMike]

Thanks for the comment. However, that was just a leopard skin print fabric that probably had no particular significance. My guess is that if a person were wearing a skin in that part of Mali it would be as a fetish intended to achieve a specific outcome -- like curing an illness or helping with some other specific need -- rather than a sign of an achievement in life. There are many cultures in Africa so it is difficult to generalize.

[roelke77]

yeah thats true, ive got my example from kenia, but its different everywhere i think

[BboyArts]

I grew up in Mali, mainly in Bafoulabé, 12 years total in Mali.

Been fishing all my life, loved this...

Seeing teben, manogo etc.

I whish they knew how good the frogs taste, they were jsut surprised when they saw us catch them and KEEP them :)

You speak good bambara

[HumboldtMike]

Thanks! I have some other videos of fishing in Mali too in case you want to take a look. And yeah, considering the animals that the kids like to eat, you'd think frogs would would be a delicacy. K'an be somogo fo!

[BboyArts]

@HumboldtMike

Amina :)

Yeah, I looked at them. I love the mystic part of it, how you can fish the weirdest places...my dad helped digging a well once...and they found a catfish (manogo) deep into the ground/mud.

Where are you from?

[PHARRAOH]

looked as if those two wmen were walking dead with axes buried in their heads. i was expectinf ash to jump out with the chain saw and get to bussiness

[HumboldtMike]

Yeah, and it always made me a little nervous when a woman had the axe on her head hanging over the baby on her back...

[marysusie]

wow amazing. where is this in mali?

[HumboldtMike]

Karan is down in the Mande on the way south from Bamako near Guinea. It's just west of Kangaba, and Keita is the main family name as in Kangaba -- handed down from Sundiata Keita.

[premium133]

mandinka mousso !