DEPA, COTE D'IVOIRE, 2006. We encountered this young Burkinabe, who had taken the bus south to join his uncle for whom he works. He seemed a little down. Maybe he was tired. He told me that at the end of his "stage" he was supposed to be paid with a bicycle.
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