Riddles for the Dry Season
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Riddles for the Dry Season

Audio10 min Four villages, North BankMandinka & Wolof

Word games played under the moon, collected from four villages.

Riddling is a competitive form with an opening formula, a scoring convention and a great deal of laughing.

Collected in four villages, which produced four different answers to the same riddle.

All four are published; none is marked correct.

Photographs

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Riddles for the Dry Season — photograph 1
Riddles for the Dry Season — photograph 2
Riddles for the Dry Season — photograph 3

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