Every four days, the village center livens up with the sights and sounds (and peculiar smells) of the market. It’s a chaotic scene, but up close the details present a calm order in their patterns. pillows, stuffed with cotton scraps aluminum stew pots trouser fabric prefer plastic or ceramic? sweet boombox: the TeleFunken. prayer rugs [...]
Last Saturday my landlady offered her daughter in marriage to a rich fella from Banikoara. These folks are a prominent family in my village, so the marriage is a big deal. My neighbors brought gifts of goats or chickens to celebrate the occasion. Living on a Peace Corps budget I couldn’t afford a good goat [...]
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