Word: kobo
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...grain and second-hand clothes market, for example, was still smoldering. Yusuf Muhammed Fikin, 58, a market stall owner, picked through the hot rubble. "I got this business from my grandfather, some 30 years ago. I owned 41 sheds, and we didn't get anything out, not even one kobo [a cent]. We lost about 6 million naira [$50,000]. All was burned." There is a police station directly adjacent to Fikin's market, but no police officers responded until 12 hours after it had been set ablaze...
...Mollie M. Kirk ’07, this performance pairs two very different, but complementary plays (“The Man Who…” written by Peter Brook and Marie Helen Estienne and “The Man Who Turned Into a Stick” by Kobo Abe) for a unified and touching effect. Although initially slow-paced, the strong performances by the small five-person cast, marked by its versatility and physicality, overcome this early slow start...