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Family Compound, Ouagadougou Burkina Faso, June 1998 Photo ©1998 by L. Lee McIntyre |
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Family Compound, Ouagadougou Burkina Faso, June 1998 Photo ©1998 by L. Lee McIntyre |
This is the entrance to a modern home in Burkina Faso. Older, more traditional homes have narrow entrances for people to wak through, but wealthier families own automobiles and require wide gates. The result is the same transformation of the front of the house we find in America where the garage takes up the whole street side.