Duguwolo. Americans have mixed feelings about small town and rural life. To call someone or something country has always had connotations of hick, redneck, hillbilly, or inbred, no matter how aggrssive the Nashville marketers get. On the other hand, down home always has a positive feel, even though it is describing a way of life that is definitely country. Down home is family, warm, accepting, laid back, all the things most of us are missing in urban life. Duguwolo is a country town. There is no ac electricity, few solar panels; only a couple of television sets, a few robinet stations (pay as you go water taps) and unreliable household wells. The streets are full of donkey carts and motos, goats and cows. The household compounds have chickens in the yard, people sewing on ancient Singer treadle machines, women cooking over open fires, and children everywhere. There are latrines in the compound with no sewage system. And yet this is the most down home place I have ever been to. Sitting in chairs under the mango tree, laughing and joking as someone makes the tea, is so pleasant and so relaxing that my hard-edged American iconoclastic tendencies drift off and I am at risk of forming sentimental attachments. But Ill worry about that tomorrow.
Posted on: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 10:34:41 +0000
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