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“The people are true.” I had come to the Omo Valley with innovative tourism entrepreneur Will Jones to get a view into the lives of some of Africa’s most traditional tribes.

Some family huts are linked or protected by thorned fences. Villages also have food storage huts, bachelor huts, huts for young girls, and small subsistence farming fields.

Tribe ethnic people in Africa. African woman with jug, afro character in tribal traditional costume, standing near ethnic hut house in village, rural African landscape.

“Tribal marks were used for identification in the past, but things have changed,” he said. The disappearance of tribal marks, according to him, has reduced the Yoruba culture due to modernisation.

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