mud houses are considered one of the most significant heritage elements in the rural environment with their diversity and variety in details and the aesthetic of their traditional style.

He mentions that he has seven masons working with him, and that he can build 10 houses, made of red blocks, in any given year. Gembu is a rural community ... one in Nigeria's North-east and ...

But for the past seven years he has been trying to build his family a two-bedroomed house, one mud brick at a time ... of ...

Children play outside a mud ... house in Suswa, Narok. [Robert Kiplagat, Standard] As the debate on the construction of affordable housing in urban areas rages on, millions of Kenyans living in ...

This is not to be confused with the late, great Fela Kuti's Afrobeat (without the s) - Nigeria's ... of all Nigerian homes have mains electricity, but there is a big urban-rural divide.

But will his death reduce rural banditry in the ... or 12 years old when they came to Nigeria. The community leaders in Sububu gave them land to build a house. That was where Jammare saw her ...

Residents of a town in north-western Nigeria are celebrating after a rare but feared hippo - along with its calf - was killed ...

By 2006, at age 76 Mimi was serving as a volunteer constructing mud houses in Ethiopia. She has never shied away ... to build a primary school with running water in the impoverished, rural Tigray ...

Forget Miami: direct flights between the United States and the Murtala Muhammed Airport, in neighboring ... become rivers of mud when it rains, the floors inside this house were spotless.

It was mid-May and 106 degrees, and Satichiwadi, a village of 83 families that sits in a parched rural valley in the ... Beyond the small grids of tile-roofed mud homes and the sun-crisped ...

Collectively, well pumps include a number of other pump types, such as jet pumps, submersible pumps, mud pumps ... pumps are the ones used to supply a house with well water. These water systems are ...