Eid-ul-Fitr: the end of the fast
Celebrating the end of the Ramadan fast, Muslim women prepare to pray in the Onafhankelijksplein, the park at the heart of Paramaribo’s...
Sapto Sopawiro: man of shadows
A wayang performance starts with a number of banana-tree stems (the Earth) and a large screen of white cloth (the Universe), behind which...
Paramaribo: rolling in the deep
The muscles in my upper arms were screaming, protesting at the workout they were being made to undergo, the likes of which they hadn’t...
Suriname’s rainforest: journey to the back of beyond
It is a typical afternoon in Raleighvallen, a remote area of Suriname’s rainforest, perhaps not unlike a day a thousand years ago. The...