While we were all engrossed by the men breaking into the apartment and the ladies cooking, this young man was downstairs fixing a broken umbrella. The umbrella is one of the most important possessions of a street vendor. No umbrella, no shade!
While he worked with the spokes, we had no idea what he was making or doing. They looked like a mess of broken spider legs. Then it all came together in the end.
Our Cote d’Ivoire Abidjan East and Bamako, Mali Mission 