An open air market in the Congo
Florid writing from AP's Congo correspondent:
At an open-air market in the northeastern jungle city of Kisangani, flies swarm around severed goat heads and hooves, stacked up like scene from a horror show.
Pulsating white palm grubs are sold en masse, wrapped into large green leaves for take away. Serpents, too, lie sprawled across wooden tables, burnt to a crisp. There are slimy snails, bush-pigs and muskrats.
"We eat everything here. Nothing gets wasted," says Diner Folo, a 35-year-old resident cruising the gritty, crowded market.
On a table, two dozen blackened macaque monkeys are piled high, the sticks they were smoked on still jutting from their mouths.
At an open-air market in the northeastern jungle city of Kisangani, flies swarm around severed goat heads and hooves, stacked up like scene from a horror show.
Pulsating white palm grubs are sold en masse, wrapped into large green leaves for take away. Serpents, too, lie sprawled across wooden tables, burnt to a crisp. There are slimy snails, bush-pigs and muskrats.
"We eat everything here. Nothing gets wasted," says Diner Folo, a 35-year-old resident cruising the gritty, crowded market.
On a table, two dozen blackened macaque monkeys are piled high, the sticks they were smoked on still jutting from their mouths.
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