Painting the palace
on Mischa in Cameroon (Cameroon), 31/Jan/2010 08:00, 34 days ago
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Last week I was at Pouss visiting some schools during the annual painting of the Chefferie. A lot of Mousgoum houses are painted, and this is the traditional work of the women, although as you can see from the photos the men were doing some of the more detailed work at the palace. If you look closely you can see that the spotty buildings on either side of the door are meant to be the Mousgoum mud houses that I posted a photo of a couple of weeks ago. The Chefferie at Pouss which was built over a hundred years ago from mud bricks is the only traditional building I've seen in the North with an upper storey, and this is actually the prison, used for the victims of the Sultan's traditional justice. Clearly there is no status attached here to living upstairs!
