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Photo from Mbomo, Gabon
 
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Tatiana, 16, peels the tough skin off cassava tubers before placing the tubers in a burlap bag in the pond. Each family has a manmade pond where tubers are soaked for three days to soften them. They are then pounded into batons of manioc.

by Pamela Parsa
Mbomo, Gabon (1999)

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