“Treatment was made more difficult by a power cut, leaving patients to be cared for in a dark rondavel on the clinic premises.”

“When we were young ones, at rondavel, the other side Heilbron, she would come and stop there for any time.”

“A retired civil servant in his 50s, he received me in a rondavel, a circular hut, inside a compound on the outskirts of Ouidah.”

“We used to have five rondavels, big land for cultivation and livestock, but when we were removed we lost virtually all of that.”

“Martin is justifiably proud of the quality of the construction, thatching, painting and plastering of the rondavels.”

“Glassy, newly paved roads lead to it, and the taupe walls of its neatly thatched rondavels are spotless despite the bucolic setting.”