Now it is a frontier town, a burgeoning collection of tents and hastily built breeze-block cantonments. |
Breeze-block walls are broken up with windows, and the roof is a semicircle of corrugated aluminium. |
General features of housing are wood or breeze-block walls, corrugated iron roofs, and uncovered wooden or cement floors. |
The blood-spattered breeze-block wall stands as grisly testimony of the violence. |
At a breeze-block sized 875 pages, it'll cost a tenner in excess luggage, but it's a great read and it will keep you entertained for a fortnight. |
The only twenty-first-century structure I see is the breeze-block shed where dried cocoa beans are bagged. |