What My Mother Refused to Forget — Her African Culture

A market trader recounts the year the river flooded and the village moved.

The flood is dated differently by everyone who remembers it, which is part of why the recording matters: the teller anchors it to a harvest, a birth and a funeral rather than to a calendar.

She describes the move itself in practical detail — what was carried, what was abandoned, and which neighbours never returned to the new site.

Her account ends with the thing she insists is the real story: the market re-opened within eleven days.

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What My Mother Refused to Forget — photograph 1

What My Mother Refused to Forget — photograph 2

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