HOUSING IN kINSHASA AND EVENTS ON THE WAY.

On our way to the housing development near the soccer Stadium of Martyrs. A place of executions in the past.

Gathered for dinner with Sam and David Daines, and Hugh Matheson and the Moons at our table.

After dinner we took Hugh home and visited his apartment. Cost is about three grand a month, one bedroom.

The modern kitchen. Resembles Ikea furnishings.

Bathroom.

Bedroom storage.

Reserved parking in the secure compound, just off Trente Juin, a K past the French Embassy.

Model pre-fab house assembled in two weeks, imported from France. 

Waiting for Roger Bimwala and his entourage. His vehicle broke down, so he was en route in a cab.

Through the fence behind the model home, tin workers make small charcoal stoves from door panels of wrecked cars, and other metal objects from car parts.

Another view of the tin salvage workers. The one seated right of center is perforating discs cut from auto door panels making grates for the charcoal stoves.

View toward the street across the tin workers manufacturing area. I am photographing through a slit in the metal fence and there are some blue straps in the way.

The beginning of the Kinshasa Marathon on the way to the development.