The Art of Trucking, Malian Style
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
“This truck is older than me,” laughs Mamadou Seye. The 25-yeard-old Senegalese trucker is standing in front of a dilapidated yellow lorry parked in a dusty plot of land near the central train station in Kayes, a bustling market town in western Mali. Ornately decorated with strange motifs – pineapples, lions, a Cobra sticker (remember that awful Stallone movie?), long-stemmed flowers, the Senegalese flag – Seye’s truck is attention grabbing, and yet also unremarkable. The lot, which sometimes doubles as a soccer field, is filled with many similarly decorated wrecks, all of them quietly baking in the early morning heat...
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posted by Robert Sloon at 2:44 PM
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