Plates and pots are luxury items and are therefore used sparingly. Two women carrying corn to the local market. Corn flour is usually added to the cassava bread. The corn adds protein which cassava lacks. In rural areas, larger villages hold weekly or bi-weekly markets where animals are slaughtered for meat.
Markets are a source of beef, pork or goat for the local population.
Often, the price of such meat is so expensive that an average villager must save during the week to buy a piece of meat for the family. Goat is another source of meat in the village. Here the goat is being prepared for butchering. Fire is being used to burn the hair off the animal as the first step in the preparation process. Palm oil comes from palm nuts which are harvested by climbing high up in palm trees.