Tanèka Koko village - BN

This is my entry for #monomad challenge by @monochromes

This is the third post about Tanèka Koko village in Benin, near Kopargo town (west Africa).
Here and part 1 and part 2 (color).

I'm publishing now in black and white, despite of I miss the good colors of clothes, the image are more dramatic.

The king and a child under a tree:

Here the king of the village smoking the tradition pipe:

I have described in preview posts daily life and the speech of the king.
I don't know how to say more.
I have also pain at an arm from ten days, and I feel a bit depressed and without inspiration.
Watching these pictures and remembering how the style of life in the village is different from our daily life, I feel more natural their life than mine, tight inside a inhuman bureaucracy, inside a growing distrust of others and of institutions.
In Italy people don't trust anymore in government, there I felt they are listening to chief.
In only a word, I feel LIFE in them.

Here a newborn:

A smily girl:

And smily and a bit shy children:

Pictures taken with Sony Alpha 7iii and Nikon D800 cameras.
21.10.2022