The Library at Markala
	I had heard that there was a public library in Markala. After asking several people, I found out where it is. I went there. It was closed. I asked several more people when it was open, and I received wildly different responses. I gave up on getting into the library. Then one day I was riding my bike past it, and it was open!  So I immediately stopped and went inside. Here is what I saw in words and pictures. The building is old and showing signs of dis-repair. I believe that it is the style of building that the French erected as colonizers. There is no electricity, therefore no lights or computers. In fact, the library has no money to buy books. Once or twice a year, they receive book donations from friends of the Markala community who live in France. When I arrived, the 2 employees were sitting near the door carrying on a conversation. For the hour or so that I remained, that is what they did. No other people came in the library while I was there. The books were neatly organized and cataloged. They even had a locked reference section which had atlases and reference books on Microsoft Word & Excel. They also had a magazine rack with about 6 journals, each dating back several months.