Gabriel Bol's tree
Jen Marlowe, for the Pulitzer Center
Gabriel Bol approached the tree slowly. I lingered behind him with the camera focused on him. On his first visit to Ariang a few days ago, the elders would not let him approach the tree. It had to be a separate occasion, they said, accompanied by its own rituals.
Gabriel was born under this tree and his placenta is buried there.
His mother is buried there as well.