SPRINGFIELD – This narrative takes place in a village in northern Togo, near Dapaong (25 kilometers away), the largest city in the region, with a population of about 75,000. This is in the Sahel, the arid to semi-arid region just below the Sahara Desert.
Incomes are about $1 U.S. per day, or $350 per year.
The village of Nano is a cluster of buildings surrounding a marketplace, where the open-air market is conducted twice a…
