Land of Canaan

Joel Collette and an elderly resident relax on the bridge over the five-door sluice.

Story and photos by Gaulbert Sutherland

There’s Egypt in the Land of Canaan.

“I does come here and chill…is like I living here cos I like it,” said a Canaanite (if they may be called that) lounging on a stand under a tree with her friends, their voices loud over the noise of their chattering children playing on the dusty, potholed road.

The streets in Egypt, Land of Canaan may be dusty, potholed and nothing much to boast about but bars, barbers and boom-boxes