Fish for sale

Post immunisation jab!

5 minutes before sunset

0400 - the cockerel starts up. 0520 - lying in tent wondering whether I could get away with wringing the cockerel's neck - but probably not since it sounds as if the village is astir; the kids are racing around the guy ropes and the Congo beat music is gradually being cranked up. Before we depart Nganda Zelu (sand town) we are surrounded by smartly dressed school kids from the village piling into pirogues for the journey across the river to school in Mbandaka. ...

Ex bateaux at the Onatra yard in Mbandaka.