Capital and largest city of Borno State in Northeastern Nigeria

A Maiduguri medicine man or shaman, Nigeria. Halftone after a photograph attributed to O.S.M. Temple.

A Maiduguri medicine man or shaman, Nigeria. Halftone after O.S.M Temple.

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A Maiduguri medicine man or shaman, Nigeria. Halftone after a photograph attributed to O.S.M. Temple.

A Maiduguri medicine man or shaman, Nigeria. Halftone after O.S.M Temple.