Stern Faces
It ain’t always easy gettin’ a smile…
It ain’t always easy gettin’ a smile…
We spent some time last week back in Goumori, visiting friends in the region’s Fulani camps.
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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