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Craig F. Walker The Denver Post
"Camel Jockeys: A Rough Ride Through Childhood"


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A group of Sudanese camel jockeys scowl at foreigners entering their camp. The youths do not trust foreigners, especially Westerners... with cameras.

A boy becomes a camel jockey in a straight forward way, people in the camel camps say - by getting on then falling off, over and over.

"They scream and cry, " said M. D. Zahuruislam, a Bengali trainer for one of Kuwait's premier camel stables. For two months it goes on like this, then they get used to it.

 

 

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