Chapter 26The car stopped in front of the last hut. Mamadou and the driver unloaded the bags and the icebox. As they entered their lodging, Johan turned on the switch beside the door. A single bulb came aglow. It was hanging at the end of an electrical cord hooked on one of the bamboo beams that supported the visible roofing thatch. The air-conditioner (called a ‘clim’ in these parts) also started purring. The two-room house was made of white-washed mud blocks. Covered with wooden shutters, the two square window holes flanked both sides of the heavy plank door. A thick wall, which stopped halfway down the length of the floor, gave access and separated what could be called the bathroom and the bedroom.
In the bathroom, the dirt floor was barren so to catch and drain the bathing water. Two
