This photo was taken by Simone Novotny Couto Pereira, a postgraduate student studying MSc Development Management . The photo was taken in Maasai Mara Village, Kenya in August, 2007.

'This Maasai women attracted my lenses from the beginning: I could tell just by looking at her that she have had a difficult life and that she had a strong personality. Her singing was much more than words: it transmitted values, personality, passion and hardship.'

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