11/28/2010

Brick making Tanzania

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Brick making in Arusha

***** Location: Tanzania
***** Season: Various, see below
***** Category: Humanity


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Explanation

Brick-making kilns in Arusha have the following seasonality:

March to August (autumn and winter)
are the seasons for brick-laying and kiln-construction,

October and November (spring)
are the months for brick-baking.

08 old kiln

Once the bricks are baked and extracted for building houses by the middle-class people, the old kilns are destroyed. However, if the bricks are not needed immediately for construction, they are baked but left in the kiln.

07 old kiln

Text and photos : Patrick Wafula


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02  Baked bricks

spring rain--
in the place of old kilns
stand baked bricks

Patrick Wafula


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Related words

***** Arusha (Tanzania)

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