We are into burning season now.  It comes along part way through the long dry season and Harmattan.  So we mix ash with the fine dust that coats everything, inside and out.  This truly is the only nasty season of the year.

"Why are people burning?" you ask.  "I thought you lived in the city.  What's to burn there?"  These are all good questions.  Yes, we live in the city.  But Cameroonians will always and forever plant crops, even if they have just a minuscule strip of land.  They plant corn (one of the favorite things to plant when you really don't have any land) and they plant all sorts of root crops (none of which you know anything about) and other things as well.   And at this time of the year they burn off the land.  Slash and burn is their age old method of farming.  So we get to mix smoke and ash with Harmattan grit.  And dream of better days to come.  In March.