Bringing coconuts in by donkey
Lamu · 18 February 2024
Dhows at anchor off the waterfront, mangroves behind them, and a donkey coming up the beach under a sack of coconuts, its rider steering by voice and stick rather than rein. Coconuts, mangrove poles and donkeys are the old economy of the archipelago in one frame: the poles went to Arabia by dhow for centuries as building timber, and the same monsoon winds that carried them still set the sailing season.
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