The African Market

Today I had the pleasure of going to the market when the staff went to get the food for the clinic for the next week. It is amazingly huge and crowded... so much food everywhere, cars were just pushing their way through areas you can't even imagine they would fit, and people were almost being run over all over the place. I saw fish, meat, all kinds of veggies, rice, beans, greens and everything else an African would need. None of this was inside...it was on all the sidewalks and spilling into the street. I was there for about 2 hours and I never saw anyone else who wasn't an African. I stepped in some kind of puddle at one point, I bought some fruit and stuff to make salsa and mostly I tried to stay out of the way and not get hit by a car, or have my stuff stolen. The woman I went with was once a street vendor so she knew all kinds of people. When I pulled out my camera people all said "snap me! snap me!" and they really enjoyed just being photographed. Here is just a small percentage of what I took. I've got a bit of video, so eventually it'll go up, but it takes about 20 minutes to upload a picture so the video will have to wait until I'm back home. enjoy