The Borana are semi-nomadic pastoralists who live in southern Ethiopia, along the Kenyan border. They have extracted salt from this enormous deposit formed by the volcano as long as anyone can remember. It lies at the bottom of the El Sod crater lake.

The men use poles with pointed tips to break up the lake bed. The mud forms a hard, compact and thick crust; they have to work hard, and hit it as hard as they can to crack it.

Extract from the film “Becoming a Man among the Borana”
Direction: Jean Queyrat
Production: ZED

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