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Wad Baseer is a traditional “village engineer” in the village of Wad Hamid in Sudan. He has never attended school. Before the arrival of water pumps, he was charged with constructing water wheels along the banks of the Nile river that irrigated villagers’ farm fields. He goes out of business once the new, modern water pumps arrive in the village.
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Chapter 5
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Though Wad Baseer is still alive today, he no longer makes such doors as that of my grandfather’s house, later generations of villagers having found out about zan wood doors and iron doors which they bring from Omdurman. The market for water-wheels, too, dried up with the coming of pumps.
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Wad Baseer Quotes in Season of Migration to the North
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Chapter 5
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Though Wad Baseer is still alive today, he no longer makes such doors as that of my grandfather’s house, later generations of villagers having found out about zan wood doors and iron doors which they bring from Omdurman. The market for water-wheels, too, dried up with the coming of pumps.
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