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Art & Culture
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      Nubia — Northern Royal  Necropolis, Meroitic Period   (300 bce to 350 ce).  Meroe, Sudan, 2007.   Image: Chester Higgins



















                     cannot recall exactly      his photography project         captured so graciously and

                     how Chester Higgins        titled: Sacred Nile. In case    with a dexterity that must
                     and I got connected on     you don’t know, anything        have been honed over many
               I LinkedIn, but I started        photography-related gets        years of doing the job. He
               seeing notifications from        my attention quicker than       featured places in Egypt,
               his posts just a while ago. It   many things. So, I followed     Sudan, and Ethiopia. I was

               appears we became “friends”      the link he shared with me      particularly drawn to the
               on LinkedIn. You know how        to see what his project was     images from Ethiopia from a
               social media friendship is.      about. Browsing through his     place called Mount Entoto.

               On this particular day, I got    Sacred Nile website, I was      About six years ago, my
               a message from him on that       blown away by the images        wife and I visited Mount
               platform telling me about        of places in Africa that he     Entoto in Ethiopia so I had



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