2019-01-25: Mlomp. Geant kapok trees and unique two floors huts.
In Mlomp, in Lower Casamance, there are, very close to majestic kapok trees, two storey huts. Marie-Angèle will make us visit the house where she lives with her three children. The hut was built by his grandfather Etienne just after the second world war when he returned from Europe. He had served in the French army as a Senegalese fighter. It was the multi-storey houses he had seen in Europe that gave him the idea of building a two-storey hut with his wife Martine in his native village. And this is the hut we are going to visit today with his grand-daughter. Of course these huts were built with local traditional materials. The walls are in banco, the frames and wooden floors of palmyra palm wood (rônier). Termites do not attack the bark of the palmyra palm, after devouring all the wood they will break their teeth on the very resistant bark. We visit the entrance hall and the kitchen on the ground floor. Upstairs we find the bedrooms and balconies. Then again on the ground floor Marie-Angele shows us her cellar where the rice of the last harvest is stored.
The idea of floor huts did not emulate the local population who considered this kind of construction as the work of illuminated!
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| Gandalf at the foot of a kapok tree (Fromager) |
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| Children playing between the roots of a kapok tree (fromager) |
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| 2-floors-huts in Mlomp |
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| Marie-Angele in the cellar with the rice in sheafs |
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