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1994 Rubondo Island (10/14): Corvee
... continued from previous slide:
... I of course was wrong to believe that the "Xylophone" was all for that day. Having a half dozen strong men available seemed rather handy for the park rangers as there was always lots of things to do on the island. Such as shoveling sand (and please, don't ask me what the sand was used for as normally there was very limited fuel available to drive the tractor to another place).
And, needless to say as well that this was not the only kind of corvee: the men stayed for half a week on the island working for the park authority before being brought to court in Geita.
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(pictures are scanned from slides and not manipulated - on purpose (read why), sorry, for the dark tones)
1994 Rubondo Island (10/14): Corvee
... continued from previous slide:
... I of course was wrong to believe that the "Xylophone" was all for that day. Having a half dozen strong men available seemed rather handy for the park rangers as there was always lots of things to do on the island. Such as shoveling sand (and please, don't ask me what the sand was used for as normally there was very limited fuel available to drive the tractor to another place).
And, needless to say as well that this was not the only kind of corvee: the men stayed for half a week on the island working for the park authority before being brought to court in Geita.
continued on next slide
(pictures are scanned from slides and not manipulated - on purpose (read why), sorry, for the dark tones)