VILLAGE  LIFE, NIASSA

 

Grinding cassava (mandioca), and maize (corn) to make flour is one of the main daily activities women, and girls, perform. Most families sell their excess produce to earn the money to buy essentials such as oil and sugar.

A hut in Nsauca.

A photo from a part of the circumcision ritual, where boys become men. The boys spend several weeks in the bush learning from their elders various skills and knowledge of the world.   Drumming, singing and dancing is a weekly event during the dry season. Women carry their babies - usually on their back - everywhere - including when they are working in the fields.

 

Football is by far the most popular sport in the country. Almost every village has a football field, although children normally make their own, using bamboo sticks for goals, and plastic bags rolled up and tied tightly together into a ball.

Washing clothes in the nearby river. Women are also responsible for cooking, collecting water, looking after the children and sometimes working on the machamba (farm plot).