In Bazoulé, a village about 30 kilometers from Burkina Faso’s capital, it is not unusual to see someone sitting on a crocodile. Children grow up swimming in the same pond, and Pierre Kaboré, who leads the village’s crocodile caretakers, says he did it himself as a boy. The pond holds well over a hundred of the reptiles (a 2016-2017 survey counted 268), and the villagers will tell you they are more than neighbors. They see them as the souls of their ancestors.
In Bazoulé, Burkina Faso, more than 100 sacred crocodiles share a pond with villagers who believe they hold the souls of their ancestors
