On the beaches of the African Atlantic coast, a multitude of men, women and children gather every day. None of them come to jump in the waves or sunbathe on the sand; they are there to fish and fish in the various processes that follow.
The men, on board their large or small wooden boats, set out to sea at night or very early in the morning to fish for the daily catch. After a long, hard day's work, the boats return one by one to the coast to unload the day's catch.
While the men unload the fish and push the heavy boats inland to end up beaching them on the sand, the women, dressed in their colourful bubus (typical African costumes), wait patiently on the shore and begin their work. Some collect fish in buckets and basins to take them to the market, others are in charge of cleaning and cutting the pieces, in preparation for their subsequent smoking or drying.
All this ancestral activity attracts tourists and travellers, who contemplate in amazement the bustling and colourful spectacle that is presented before their eyes, because on these African beaches, the only ones who remain still and lying in the sun are the fish that are spread out on the rudimentary drying racks, built with sticks and reeds.
