Cherished Memories of Africa — Page 34
26 our lunch and dinner – millet and milk each time; we ate that with pleasure. Millet and Yoghurt They moisten the millet with water and grind it, rather pound it (into flour). A large vessel full of water is put on fire-place. The millet flour is put in a sieve-like container which is placed over the water-filled vessel under which fire is lit. The millet flour is thus cooked with steam. They put stew, milk or yoghurt (whatever is available) over it and eat. They have an easy way of preparing yoghurt: put the cow milk in a large, wide vessel and a few days later it turns into yoghurt. At first, seeing and eating it makes you feel uneasy, but when you are starving and realise that nothing else will be available the whole day in the whole area then it is delicious in its own right! First Tabligh Meeting in Senegal Hammad Bah organised a tabligh meeting in his village the same evening. Many people from the village gathered and I delivered the message of truth to the best of my ability. Question and answer session continued till late in the night. The attendees listened to the programme with interest and admired it. After the meeting we retired to our room in the corn field for the night. The host put a plastic mat on the floor in our honour and we lay on it. Enjoying the audios of the beasts, close atmosphere and musical tones of mosquitoes, now asleep, now awake somehow we spent the night. That night, when we had the oven to warm us, has gone That night, when we had fur to cover us, has gone