Ethnic Mursi women with a Lip plate (lip cup) carrying a pot and holding her baby with one hand at Omo Valley in Ethiopia. Women of the Mursi tribe may have their lips cut at the age of 15 or 16. A ...
Mursi is a unique Surma tribe in Southern Sudan and the language they speak is also called Mursi. When a Mursi girl becomes a teenager, she begins the process of lip stretching. The girl has her ...
KALISPELL — Photographer Andrew Geiger is afraid the subjects of his favorite work are going extinct. The self-sustaining tribes scattered across the remote regions of Ethiopia. An elderly woman in ...
With fewer than two thousand members, the Karo are one of the smallest tribes living along the Omo. They support themselves with fishing and sorghum farming, and by trading with the Hamar and the ...
* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Where will a “second chance” at equality and social justice lead for Egypt’s women? “There is ...