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Bricks for home construction are made after the short rainy season. People get mud for the bricks from a manmade hole in the ground that fills with water during the rainy season. This hole dries up within a month, so the villagers have to work quickly to make bricks from the mud for the duration of the year. These bricks have been set in the sun to dry.

by Bruce Karhoff
Mene, Burkina Faso (1999)

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