Interlude – The Calm Before the Storm

Tanzanian women wait anxiously at noon for the fishermen’s haul, on the coastline that fringes the robust Kigamboni market in Dar es Salaam. The bountiful catch will later be ferried to villages to be sold to individual families after sessions of loud, furious bargaining go adrift. Shoals of freshwater fish so readily available from the Indian Ocean, make tempting meals for locals at the dinner table. The resilient women think nothing of tramping several kilometres on a hot dusty day, with each one brilliantly balancing a heavy pail  on her head. Photography by Susan Abraham ©