21. Electric lights glimmer in mud huts. 22. Handsome brick homes, many with satellite dishes, have replaced mud huts. 23. He drives a battered pickup and lives with his wife in a non-electrified mud hut modeled after a Mongolian yurt. 24. He slept in a mud hut with a roof of coconut leaves. 25. He said the camps, mostly mud huts and tents, could be rebuilt within a week. 26. He said he was captured, blindfolded, marched for miles, and locked in a mud hut. 27. His childhood home, built by his father, a day laborer, was a mud hut with coconut fronds for a roof. 28. I once had to bivouac in Africa in an abandoned mud hut that turned out to have a wasp nest directly above my cot. 29. In the mud huts here, they are dying one by one. 30. In this village of thatched mud huts in rural Tanzania, in East Africa, the trauma of losing a child is almost as common as a scraped knee. |