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May 1st is Labor Day in this country, and is celebrated with a day off and a parade and a feast of some sort. We were invited to the government party “downtown”. It was a raucous beer drinking and dancing crowd, but we really felt, because we had been invited as couples for the first time, that we should go. They sat us 7 missionaries all together, along with the local government hospital’s doctor. Most of our Fulani\/Musxlim friends who attended also sat by quietly, watching what beer does for some people. Here is a photo of friends, a couple whose home we meet at for our weekly gatherings in Gamboula. He is not Fulani, but another tribe, and she is half Fulani.
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