11. Artisans laboring in dimly-lit mud huts build the guns by hand, manufacturing barrels, stocks and the other workings. 12. As in many slums, the landlords do not own the land but have laid claim to the mud huts or other structures they constructed. 13. A pickup filled with beer and cane liquor now trails the monthly government pay van, he said, and many mud huts in Tsumkwe are now illegal taverns. 14. A mob of raging machete-wielding Hindu fundamentalists crested the hill above his mud hut and swarmed over the rustic Christian prayer hall where he worships. 15. Africans building mud huts love them, because the grainy soil inside is just the right consistency for hard-packed floors. 16. Africans building mud huts love them, because the grainy soil inside is just the right consistency for hard packed floors. 17. But the place is overcrowded, because as bad as it is, it still beats a boxcar or a mud hut. 18. Clouds of choking dust swirl through the Lalla Guzar camp, in which families live in mud huts and tents. 19. Children and saffron-clad priests wend past damaged mud huts, fallen palms and stagnant pools of water. 20. Chito Karar, in a pink sari, walked back and forth through what had been her mud hut, singing her woes in a keening lament. |