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Today, 14-year-old Nene Jallow pounds rice and peanuts to make churrah gerte, or rice porridge. Usually the women pound millet, a staple grain, building great strength as they perform this task.

by Katherine Whitman
Ker Cherno, The Gambia (1999)

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