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Family compound, Sevaré, Mali, June 1998 Photo ©1998 by L. Lee McIntyre |
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Family compound, Sevaré, Mali, June 1998 Photo ©1998 by L. Lee McIntyre |
Some of the family relaxes in the shade of the straw sun shelter as another member of the family does the laundry. In most of west Africa people leave work at noon and go home for lunch until late in the afternoon to escape the midday heat. They then return to work until rather late in the evening, when it is cooler.