Only in Burundi
Anais Lopez and Eva Smallegange
Self-Published
French and English
Hardcover
264 pages
150 x 190 mm
2013
ISBN 9789082076103
“The past two years my colleague Eva Smallegange (writer) and I worked on this book. We travelled to Burundi (Central Africa) and got to know this country, its inhabitants and its culture. Through photography and writing we show contemporary Burundian life in different strata of society. Tying all these colourful stories and images together was a long process, but the results are amazing. We succeeded in making a book with a positive outlook, containing personal stories of our guide and main narrator Koky. He tells about his childhood and introduces ten of his friends from different strata of society such as: the manioc miller from whom he buys his flour, the princess who was once engaged to his brother, the president and his cousin the cow herder. They share their view on what you need to survive in this intriguing country, five years after the ending of the civil war that raged for years: to get things done you need the right connections.”
About the Artists
Anaïs López is a visual artist in Amsterdam based in the Netherlands. She is a documentary photographer who works with still and moving images.
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Eva Smallegange specialises in research (international, post-conflict settings, qualitative and quantitative) training and teaching.
