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| Carrying
water back to the village |
Out in the bush, the boys and men look after their
herds of goats and cattle. At least that is the way
it used to be until drought in the 1980s
wiped out herds of animals, and many people were left
with nothing. Now the boys are as likely to be found
in the village field, where the villagers grow drought-tolerant
crops like millet and sorghum.
"During the
big drought of 1984-85 there was no grass at all so the animals were just eating sand, so
of course they died. Eventually I came to see that it was time to settle. The nomadic life
is very tiring, but we couldn't continue at all without our animals." Idjirinta
Ag Imbikrane |
