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  • Bull fight in Barka, Oman 2011
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  • A training course at the TASO training center in Kampala. The TASO training function is ensuring that individual and service providers in different institutions with in and outside Uganda access HIV/AIDS training. Over the years TASO has trained individuals, communities and organizations through participative approaches and direct partnership with people living with HIV/AIDS. Today TASO has trained over 15, 000 individuals both locally and internationally since inception.
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  • Clients waiting at the indoor waiting-area of the TASO Service Center  in Kampala. Once clients are registered, all TASO services are free of charge. TASO runs 11 service centers spread in Uganda, with now 22 "mini-TASOs" and Community Based organisations in other parts of the country that are outside TASO's catchment area of 75Km from the nearest service center.
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  • The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) was founded in 1987 by Noerine Kaleeba and a group of friends and colleagues some of whom were either directly infected with HIV or implicitly affected because their very close familial associates were infected. Today TASO cares for over 100,000 people annually through HIV counseling, medical care as well as social support.
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  • An MDD Group is rehersing at the TASO Day Care Center in Kampala. The TASO MDD (Music, Dance and Drama) groups are composed of people living with HIV/AIDS who have decided to go public about their sero-status and freely share their experiences with others. They go to schools, markets and other communities to educate people through personal testimonies and HIV/AIDS message-laden music dance and drama.
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  • Bull fight in Barka, Oman 2011
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  • Men release a bull from a pickup for a Bull fight in Barka, Oman 2011
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  • (2008) Several women are fighting for a cigarette. Fights among the women at the shelter are not unusual and  envy is a big problem. Therefore Father Hermann has to be very careful to distribute food and clothes at his shelter equitably.
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  • Marabout Serigne Cheikh Seye prays with his Baye Fall disciples in the fields of “Taw Feekh.” Submission to their spiritual leaders and teachers, whom they  call “Marabout,” is one the core values of the Baye Fall brotherhood and therefore part of fighting the Jihad.
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  • Dakar, July 24 2016. The wrestler Lac de Guiers 2 performs a wrestler´s dance at the stadium of Demba Diop before fighting against the wrestler Yekini.
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  • The women and children from the Senegalese village Soune have assembled to watch the men fighting in a wrestling match on April 20, 2012. The wrestling matches in the country are delivered occasionally at village celebrations to entertain the audience.
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  • Dakar, July 22, 2016. Kherou Ngor stares at his opponent, the wrestler Gori, before they start their fight at the Iba Mar Diop stadium. Around his neck he wears several wooden gris-gris amulets, which are said to have supernatural powers. Senegalese wrestlers believe that physical and spiritual powers are equally important in every fight.
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  • April 1, 2015. A wrestler inhals holy smoke in Djilass, a small village in the ditrict of Thiès. He uses a cloth which he also carries on the abdomen during the fight. The inhalation of holy smoke is a part of the mystic rituals, which the wrestlers celebrate before a fight.
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  • March 29 2015 – A wrestler warms up before a final fight in the Iba Mar Diop stadium, located in the Medina district in Dakar. To prepare, he dances alone in a trance-like state to ear-deafening hypnotic drums and repetitive beats. The final fight is endowed with 700000 CFA (approx. 1200 US dollar).
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  • November 4, 2017. Before a fight Kherou Ngor vists the Cham - a place of worship for the ancestors of the family of the wrestler. There he performs different rituals before each fight.
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  • People of the village of Ngor in Dakar gather in front of the house of the family of Kherou Ngor, to see the young wrestler performing a traditional wrestling dance to the sound of drums before he goes to a fight at the Iba Mar Diop stadiumin Dakar on July 22, 2016. Dancing and drumming performances take place before every Senegalese wrestling fight and tournament.
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  • April 1, 2015. A wrestler inhals holy smoke in Djilass, a small village in the ditrict of Thiès. He uses a cloth which he also carries on the abdomen during the fight. The inhalation of holy smoke is a part of the mystic rituals, which the wrestlers celebrate before a fight.
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  • April 11, 2015. Young men prepare themselves for a wrestling fight in Bambilor, a small village close to Dakar. The wrestlers wrap a cloth around their abdomens at which the wrestlers hold each other during the fight.
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  • Before a fight on November 4, 2017. Kehrou Ngor looks down on the streets of the village of Ngor in Dakar, standing on the terrace of his family's house.  After winning fights in the biggest stadiums in Dakar, he has become a star in the neighborhood. He looks back on a career with many victories and hardly any lost matches.
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  • Anual Report (2017) for the Swiss Re Foundation about their Partnership with Ashoka in India, supporting the efforts of social entrepreneurs to fight malnutrition among pupils in India. Photographed for the Swiss re foundation.
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  • April 1, 2016. In Djilass, a small village in the district of Thiès, a Marabout performs a Gris-gris ritual by washing a chicken in the water in order to produce a magic potion.  All the wrestler use several magic potions which they poor over their bodies before the fights. The ones who win every fight are actually the Marabouts, which are always well paid for the talismans and magic potions by the fighters.
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  • BB Bismi Ndoye defeats the wrestler Maraka Dji in the Demba Diop stadium, in a fight on April the 5, 2015. Some fights last no longer as 90 seconds, only a few more than 15 minutes or more.
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  • April 5, 2015 – The Senegalese television station TFM, which belongs to the well-known musician Youssou N'Dour, will broadcast the tournament live in the Demba Diop stadium. TFM is also the organiser and promoter of the fights, which will last from noon until bend and culminate in the fight between Balla Gaye 2 and Emeu Sene.
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  • April 2, 2015. A poster on a Bus station in Dakar advertises a bit fight that takes place on April 4, 2015, the Senegalese independence day. Independence day is always celebrated with some major fights at the stadiums of Dakar.
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  • A wrestler performs a washing ritual before a regional fight in the river of the Djilass village on April 1, 2015. Wrestlers who are successfull in fights on the countryside might participate in tournbaments in the bigger cities, where one can win higher prize money.
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  • A wrestler performs a washing ritual before a regional fight in the river of the Djilass village on April 1, 2015. Wrestlers who are successfull in fights on the countryside might participate in tournbaments in the bigger cities, where one can win higher prize money.
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  • On August 11. 2015, Kherou Ngor sacrifices cow's milk on the rocks of gor beach, after which he chose his wrestling name. Kherou Ngor means „Rock of Ngor“. He says that a powerful spirit lives in the water and in the rocks at this  beach, By pouring milk on the rocks and praying.Kherou asks for the ghost’s favour and support his next fight.
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  • Dakar, November 4, 2017. Kherou Ngor marches to the stadium in Ngor for a local fight, accompanied by some children of the village.
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  • In the stadium "Olympique de Ngor" in Dakar a small local wrestling tournament takes place on 04 November 2017. Kherou Ngor is also taking part to support the wrestlers in his neighborhood. Kherou, who has won major matches in Dakar's largest stadium in front of tens of thousands of spectators, has many loyal fans and thus guarantees wrestling match organizers a good crowd. At this point, Kherou does not yet know that this relatively small fight would be his very last as a Senegalese wrestler.
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  • Anual Report (2017) for the Swiss Re Foundation about their Partnership with Ashoka in India, supporting the efforts of social entrepreneurs to fight malnutrition among pupils in India.
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  • Anual Report (2017) for the Swiss Re Foundation about their Partnership with Ashoka in India, supporting the efforts of social entrepreneurs to fight malnutrition among pupils in India.
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  • Anual Report (2017) for the Swiss Re Foundation about their Partnership with Ashoka in India, supporting the efforts of social entrepreneurs to fight malnutrition among pupils in India.
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  • A music and dance performance in traditional dresses is held at a school in Assam, India, in order to honor and welcome guests. The photograph was taken for the 2017 Anual Report of the Swiss Re Foundation, documenting the foundation´s Partnership with Ashoka in India, an NGO which  supports the efforts of social entrepreneurs to fight malnutrition among pupils in India.
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  • Anual Report (2017) for the Swiss Re Foundation about their Partnership with Ashoka in India, supporting the efforts of social entrepreneurs to fight malnutrition among pupils in India.
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  • Dakar, July 22, 2016. Kherou Ngor beats the wrestler Gori with a hard punch at the Iba mar Diop stadium. A few seconds later Gori goes down on his knees and Kherou wins the fight. Kherou Ngo's sigantur is his hard, fast punches. He is actually too lean and light in body weight for a Senegalese wrestler, so he tries to take his opponent down before being involved in traditional wrestling action.
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  • Wrestling fans and street vendors gather at the Demba Diop stadium in Dakar for the fight between the wrestling stars Balla Gaye 2 and Emeu Sene on April 5, 2015
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  • Emeu Sene (on the left) hits Balla Gaye 2 (on the right) during a fight in the stadium of Demba Diop on April 5, 2015.
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  • Adam Ngom, a well-known drummer, cheers the audience on for the Wrestler Balla Gaye 2 In the stadium of Demba Diop, April 5, 2015. Every fight is accompanied by drum sounds – an important mystic element which is never absent, not even at small wrestling matches in the village.
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  • Two assistants help to attach several Gris-gris amulets to the wrestlers body before the fight in the small village of in the small village Djilass on April 1, 2015.
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  • March 29, 2015. Flag bearers carry the Senegalese flag in the Iba Mar Diop stadium in Dakar before the final fight, followed by high personalities from politics and culture.
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  • A Wrestler presents his Gris-gris amulets to the audience  before the fight in the Adrien Senghor arena begins, March 28, 2015;  To drumbeats and repetitive songs he dances himself into trance.
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  • This young man was abducted and forced to fight with the Lord Resistance Army. He could escape the rebels, but he can´t escape the memorys of the people he had to murder. He says they keep coming to his dreams every night. After he escaped he also found out that he was infected with HIV in those four years.
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  • November 4, 2017. Shortly before leaving his uncles house to go to a tournament, Kherou Ngor puts on his Gris-Gris Amulets, that will protect him from evil spirits and the voodoo-magic of his opponent at  his upcoming fight at the stadium in Ngor,
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  • Anual Report (2017) for the Swiss Re Foundation about their Partnership with Ashoka in India, supporting the efforts of social entrepreneurs to fight malnutrition among pupils in India.
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  • Anual Report (2017) for the Swiss Re Foundation about their Partnership with Ashoka in India, supporting the efforts of social entrepreneurs to fight malnutrition among pupils in India.
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  • Anual Report (2017) for the Swiss Re Foundation about their Partnership with Ashoka in India, supporting the efforts of social entrepreneurs to fight malnutrition among pupils in India.
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  • Anual Report (2017) for the Swiss Re Foundation about their Partnership with Ashoka in India, supporting the efforts of social entrepreneurs to fight malnutrition among pupils in India.
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  • Anual Report (2017) for the Swiss Re Foundation about their Partnership with Ashoka in India, supporting the efforts of social entrepreneurs to fight malnutrition among pupils in India.
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  • Anual Report (2017) for the Swiss Re Foundation about their Partnership with Ashoka in India, supporting the efforts of social entrepreneurs to fight malnutrition among pupils in India.
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  • Dakar, July 24, 2016. One day after a successful fight, Kherou Ngor is resting in his room. Later that evening, his friends and family will celebrate him with a big party. After another victory, he is optimistic that one day he will become the "King of the Arena" in Senegalese wrestling. He has no idea that this should have been the last big victory in his wrestling career.
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  • Ex-wrestler Lac de Guiers poses in front of the Mar Diop stadium on March 29, 2015. Here his fight against the wrestler Commando wrote wrestling history in Senegal. With his targeted, hard punches Lac de Guiers sent the much taller  favourite by knock out to ground. Today he’s the owner of a Wrestling school.
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  • The audience and press storm the arena after the final fight to celebrate the winner, as here in the Iba Mar Diop stadium in Dakar, March 29, 2015. The winner can count himself happy; nevertheless, he has just won prize money worth 7000 dollars - in Senegal a lot of money.
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  • Young Wrestler prepare for a forthcoming competition, they wrap cloths around their abdomen on which the Wrestler can hold each other during the fight.
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  • Emeu Sene triumphs after the fight against Balla Gaye 2 on the stage of the Demba Diop stadium in Dakar on April 5, 2015.
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  • Sports photographers pursue the fight of two Wrestlers in the Demba Diop stadium with her cameras.
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  • The wrester BB Bismi Ndoye prepares for his fight by pouring a Gris-gris liquid over his body while running around the ring at the Demba Diop stadium in Dakar on April 5, 2015.
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  • Demba Diop stadium, Dakar, April 5, 2015. Police forces are always present to prevent  clashed between the fans of opposed wrestlers at the end of a fight.
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  • At a public viewing in Dakar, the audience pursues the fight tensely on April 21, 2015.
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  • April 4, 2015. Kherou Ngor shows a video of his last big fight on his Smartphone, from which he arose as regional lightweight champion.
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  • April 1, 2015. At tornament on in Djilass, a small village in the disrict of Thiès, a wrestler gets ready for his fight after dancing himself into trance.
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  • April 1, 2015. Two assistants prepare a wrestler for a tournament In the small village of Djilass. They  help the  wrestler to wrap a cloth around his abdomen, at which the wrestlers hold each other during the fight.
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  • A wrestler puts numerous Gris-gris amulets onto himself before a fight in the small village Djilass on April 1, 2015.  In the foreground, one can see magic potions filled up in various bottles.
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  • A wrestler warms up before the final fight at the Iba Mar Diop stadium in Dakar on March 29, 2015. So-called Gris-gris are magic amulets which the fighters carry on their bodies or often in their mouths.
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  • A wrestler pours a magic potion over himself before the fight.
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  • April 20, 2012. Two wrestlers in an occasional fight at a village party in the small place Soune on April 20, 2012. Wrestling is a traditional sport in Senegal, wrestling tournaments take place even in the smallest villages on the countryside.
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  • In the stadium "Olympique de Ngor" in Dakar a small local wrestling tournament takes place on 04 November 2017. Kherou Ngor is also taking part to support the wrestlers in his neighborhood. Kherou, who has won major matches in Dakar's largest stadium in front of tens of thousands of spectators, has many loyal fans and thus guarantees wrestling match organizers a good crowd. At this point, Kherou does not yet know that this relatively small fight would be his very last as a Senegalese wrestler.
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  • November 4, 2017. Before a tournamant Kherou Ngor’s cousin blows water over the wrestler´s head at the Cham, the shrine of the ancestors of Kherou Ngor’s family. They perform this ceremony in order to give Kherou Ngor the strenght and support of their anchestors for a fight
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  • Dakar, November 04, 2017. Shortly before leaving his uncles house to go to a tournament, Kherou Ngor puts on his Gris-gris amulets, that will protect him from evil spirits and the voodoo-magic of his opponent at the upcoming fight at the stadium. All wrestlers in Senegal wear this kind of magical amulets. They usually have to pay a lot of money to the witchdoctors who produce those Gris-gris amulets for them. Kherou is lucky, because his uncle crafts his Gris-gris amulets for him.
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  • October 10, 2017. Renuse Kalela shows a statue of the Senegaese wrestling Legend Yekini who was the unbeaten Champion of the arena during one decade. The sculptue is made of old cars and would be 7 meters high when assembled. The unfinished statue has been disposed in Kalela´s garden in Bambilor after Yekini lost the comback fight against Lac de Guers 2 on July 24, 2016.
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  • Anual Report (2017) for the Swiss Re Foundation about their Partnership with Ashoka in India, supporting the efforts of social entrepreneurs to fight malnutrition among pupils in India.
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  • Anual Report (2017) for the Swiss Re Foundation about their Partnership with Ashoka in India, supporting the efforts of social entrepreneurs to fight malnutrition among pupils in India.
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  • Anual Report (2017) for the Swiss Re Foundation about their Partnership with Ashoka in India, supporting the efforts of social entrepreneurs to fight malnutrition among pupils in India.
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  • Over 20000 fans gather to watch the fight between wrestling champions Balla Gaye 2 and Emeu Sene at the sold out Demba Diop soccer stadium in Dakar on April 5, 2015. Each wrestler has his own fans who support him and follow him to his matches. Many of the fans hold up posters and banners with pictures of their favorite wrestler.
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  • Dakar, April 10, 2015. Superstar Balla Gaye 2 comforts his fans on the terrace of his house in Guédiawaye, after he lost a big fight against his opponent Emeu Sene on April the 5th. His followers praise his friendly, open kind, while his opponents accuse him that he gained an unnatural amount of muscles and weight during his training in the USA.
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  • March 29, 2015 - Enthusiasm versus frustration in the audience of the Iba Mar Diop stadium  – every wrestler has his own supporters who support him and cheer for him during the fight.
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  • After the fight, Journalists crowd around the triumphing Wrestler Emeu Sene in the Demba Diop stadium.
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  • Senegalese Sport-photographers and cameramen compete for the best picture during the fight.
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  • The Wrestler Emeu Sene curses his challenger Balla Gaye, before the fight, with his magic horn, one of the most important amulets.
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  • Some audience watches a wrestling fight on TV on the street in Dakar on April 4, 2015, the independance day of Senegal.
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  • Friends try to comfort a wrestler who does not want to get up after loosing a fight at a tournament in Djilass, on April 1, 2015. Many Wrestlers are devastated after a defeat. Some may have invested a small fortune in the magic powers of the Marabouts, in hope to win the high prize money, confident that the investment will pay off.
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  • April 1 2016. A shaman in prepares a wrestler for a fight in Djilass, a small village on the countryside in the district of Thiès. Even well reknown wrestlers from Dakar somtimes visit the marabouts in the small villages on the countryside, because they believe that every Marabout has his own supernatural skills and magic powers.
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  • March 30, 2015. Lac de Guiers 2 has to run and pull his eponym, the Ex-Wrestler Lac de Guiers 1, through the sand.  The hardworkout was worth it, Lac De Guiers 2 sensationally defeated the favoured Wrestler Papa Sow at a fight in the Demba Diop stadium in Dakar on April 12,  2015.
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  • The spectators  go wild as a young wrestler defeats his opponent in a nightly competition on April 8, 2015 in the Ngor district in Dakar, Even small children attend the fights that often kick off until after midnight.
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  • Most of the important wrestling matches take place in the Demba Diop stadium in Dakar. The prize money for the fights exploded during the last 10 years, because of the involvement of big sponsors from the telecommunication branch.
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  • Crowds are gathering in the streets of Dakar to watch the wrestling fights on TV on April 4 2015, the celebration day of Senegalese independence.
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  • Nairobi, September 28, 2019. On the LED screens in the Mastermind-Matatu boxing fights are shown while the bus waits for passangers at Tom Mboya Street in Nairobi. Like many matatus, the bus is equipped with colored interior lighting, LED screens and Wifi on board in order entertain the passengers. The entertainment pays off: The conductors have to fill some 30 seats. The faster the bus is full, the more tours they can do, the more money they can earn.
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  • November 10, 2017.Kherou Ngor is a follower of the Sufi Brotherhood of the Layenes. Before and after his fights Kherou Ngor prays in the grotto where the reborn prophet Muhammad is said to have lived for 20 years. In 1884, Seydina Limamob Laye, the founder of the Layene brotherhood, claimed to be the Mahdi, the reincarnation of the Prophet Muhammad. The Layene believe that this grotto is a place of power.
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  • Wrestlers dance to the sound of drums at the Demba Diop stadium in  Dakar, April 5, 2015. The Wrestlers entertain the audience with traditional dances and Gris-gris  ceremonies before their fights. However, the traditional costumes were substituted with high-tech fibre sports clothing and with the logos of modern telecommunication brands.
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  • On two sides of a street in Dakar, groups are watching the wrestling match on television at the Senegalese Independence Day on April 4, 2015. The Senegalese people celebrate Independence Day traditionally with some major wrestling fights. Almost the entire population in Senegal, from small children to old women, follow the wrestling matches on TV or, if possible, at the stadium.
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  • March 28 2015. The mood in the Adrien Senghor arena in the Yoff district, reminds of the gladiatorial fights of the antiquity.
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  • The wrestling matches which are broadcasted live on the Senegalese television take place in the stadia of Dakar every week-end. The big fights are true blockbusters – from the toddler up to the grandmother everybody watches, the spectacle.
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  • While some wrestlers warm up for their fights at the sidelines of the Iba Mar Diop stadium in Dakar, several duels take place in the center of the arena on March 29, 2015.
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