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Menachem Kuchar Photographer |
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East African Experience
In June 2011 I spent a week in East Africa with Rabbi Shlomo Riskin and three other travel companions. We moved around quite a bit, and this is a partial photographic journal of where we were and what we saw. I have started a text-based travelogue which I am continuing to write. The photographs here are divided into nine galleries. Visiting the Abayudaya tribe was one of our main trip aims, and there are four albums dealing with these visits. These galleries are not yet complete, especially the Animal Gallery . . . so please stay tuned -- there's more to come.
The Abayudaya Tribe have been practicing Judaism for nearly one hundred years though they have not been converted by Orthodox means. They live in nine villages of which we visited three. We also visited the home and final resting place of the founder, Semei Kakungulu. The Abayudaya are indistinguishable from the surrounding native population, so it is possible that my photographs of the village people are not members of the tribe.
 | Addis Ababa Read Essay | |||||||
 | Animals -- Nairobi National Park and more | |||||||
 | Nairobi, Kenya | |||||||
 | Visiting the Abayudaya Tribe in Putti, Uganda Read Essay | |||||||
 | Kakungulu House in Gangama at the foot of Mount Elgon -- King Kakungulu was the founder of the Abayudaya Tribe, bringing his people to Judaism Read Essay | |||||||
 | Visiting the Abayudaya at Nabugoye, Uganda Read Essay | |||||||
 | Visiting the Abayudaya at Namanyoyi, Uganda Read Essay | |||||||
 | Mbale, Uganda Read Essay | |||||||
 | Country Market, Uganda On our drive back towards Kenya, we passed a market by the side of the highway . . . so we stopped to take a look | |||||||
 | African Portraits in Black & White | |||||||
You can also see my photographs from South Africa.
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