Niger Boy Living In Africa Cooking Outdoors Over Wood Fire Preparing Food For Family.

The family of this young boy living in Africa had made their own place, with spare bricks and stones, for cooking outdoors. One day when I was passing his home I saw the boy cooking over his wood fire. He was so absorbed with his cooking that he did not notice that a Chinese doctor was watching him with a lot of interest. Perhaps he was cooking some maize for his mother, and the thought took me back to the time when I was about his age. When I was a boy I always helped my mother to cook the rice, but I always had trouble getting the fire to burn. This young Niger boy was much better than me, in doing that, for the fire got going quickly so that he could cook the food.