Marabout and his patients, Mirriah , Niger. He is traditional muslim healer, and helps not only with your health problems, but for example with success in business, as is the case with man in green writing in the back. You have to describe your problem and marabout will prepare a set of spells and write them down with suitable verses from Koran on a wooden board, which gets washed afterwards and the patient is given the dirty water with ink to drink
. There is many marabouts like this in Mirriah, town in eastern Niger, where islam had to incorporate traditional practices in order to gain popularity. Now there is modernity as well, with marabout staying in touch with his customers by mobile phone
