Tourists in Cheetah Costumes in Jinka: Austrian tourists in matching, fake cheetah outfits shoot snapshots of locals. As I photograph them, eventually they and their guides realize what I am doing. The guides wag their fingers at me and tell me to leave and the women duck for cover not wanting to have their photographs taken even though it is fine for them to roar up in their air conditioned land cruisers, jump out blast away some photographs of locals and roar off again. Tourists in this valley have trained the locals to beg for money in return for being photographed. This burns the idea into young African minds that for them to get anything they have to beg for it from people that live in richer countries. I believe this stays with them into manhood and into any role they might have ad adults in development for their country.
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