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Photo of the DayMarch 25, 2006
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KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 2000
Photograph by Chris Johns
A spirited dance is preformed for the training of new izangoma or diviners, in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Izangoma are chosen by the ancestors to heal the living. Bad dreams, pains, or fainting are signs that the ancestors have chosen a person to become an izangoma, who will then train to become a medium between the living and the dead.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "No Borders," September 2001, National Geographic magazine)

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