In 1995, I took a three-month sabbatical with an unusual objective: I wanted to discover how people in sub-Saharan Africa used insects and other arthropods in their everyday lives.
I was interested not only in insects as food or medicine, but also in their place in religion and witchcraft, art and music, dance, children’s games, stories, and proverbs. Together with a second sabbatical in 2000, this journey eventually led me to interview 304 people from 121 ethnic groups in 27 African countries.
Les insectes dans la culture africaine
You will find on this page examples from published work
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- Plusieurs exemples tirés d'études portant sur les termites, les chenilles, les coléoptères, les guêpes et les abeilles, ainsi que les sauterelles et les criquets
- Seven refereed publications (open access)
You can access the examples/publications here
Here several stories during the interviews
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- Les sauterelles qui ont changé ma carrière
- Le secret de la réussite du football camerounais
- Quand les araignées font de la musique
- La magie, les araignées et l'interview la plus chère du Togo
- Soudan : là où les piqûres d'abeilles sont devenues un remède
You can acccess the stories here
