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These revellers spend up to a year before the parade 'pasting' their costumes in Junkanoo 'shacks' and practising their theme songs.

The town is now comprised mostly of depressing shacks ; the inn is the only building that looks even the least bit habitable.

Buck's father was one of the first five missionaries to buy building plots from Little and put up stone shacks with tarpaulin roofs.

Throughout urban Africa, as well, it is common to see brittle corn stalks peeking out from behind crowded shacks.

They buy their ordnance from vendors who set up shacks on street corners across the city about a week before the holiday.

It was in a small remote location, where people lived together in small, dilapidated shacks made of tattered bamboo-mat sheets.

Some bars and coffee shops are in lovingly restored colonial mansions and others are just shacks by the beach with a few stools outside.

And there among the wooden shacks, with their roofs made of palm leaves, was a bar selling ice-cream.

The grass shacks, tee pees and mud huts did not separate these indigenous peoples from the natural world.

I found the front line about a mile beyond Al Uqaylah, a huddle of roadside snack shacks and trash heaps.

Crime is said to be high, with drug gangs moving into unused shacks, but the police offer little relief.

I made several trips with Brother Mance, as he was called, to plantation shacks, sleeping on Shuck mattresses.

Wild animals are often killed illegally for bush meat. The shacks by the flower farms sell impala meat to the hard-pressed workers.

Lower income people live closer to the beach, with the poor residing in townships full of wooden homes and shacks .

"Mzungu [white person], look at the bananas, " a young boy shouted, pointing to the banana plant growing among the shacks.

Tourism remains, but the seasonal surf shacks and burger joints can't make up for the lost economic activity.

Among the shacks , though, rise three-storey brick structures with satellite dishes on their tin roofs.

At the time, Tompkins Square Park, across the street, was teeming with homeless people living in makeshift shacks.

It rips off the roofs of shacks and ? , knocked out power, and left tourists drenched in the upscale tourist resorts of Los Cabos.

Tin roofs glitter on the shacks of loggers, miners and planters, each with a smallholding hacked out around it.

Ironically, some of the country's poorest benefited from living in tin-roofed shacks, which were much easier to escape from.

We were passing a collection of shacks and log cabins now, bleached white and warped by the weather.

They don't want people to see shacks on the road in South Africa.

Lower income people live closer to the beach, with the poorer residing in townships full of wooden homes and shacks .

I guess it would look pretty nice if you got rid of all the barbed wire and guns and mickey mouse army shacks.

The health center that Obama visited was located in Khayelitsha, a poor area with miles and miles of tin-roofed shacks.

Undulating over Soweto's hills in southern Johannesburg are oceans of corrugated metal shacks.

Beattyville (population 1, 800) is less a town than a three-light strip bordered by aluminum shacks and a pine forest.

Shacks on the grass field form a stark contrast to the nearby high risers under construction in Guangzhou of Guangdong, Apr.

In China, "Super Girl" created a stir from bamboo-forest villages to the crab shacks of Shanghai and is seen as a new phenomenon.

They may bring up their children with stories of presidents who were born in log cabins or shotgun-shacks.

He asked "Does hip hop not reach from Zimbabwe all the way down to the shacks of Indonesia? "

A 175-hectare maze of impenetrable dark alleys and corrugated shacks, Dharavi swarms with more than a million residents.

They are heartened when they learn of the fortune paid for one of the shacks under the flight path.

It is a place of misery where 17% of homes do not have running water and too many families live in home-made shacks by motorway bridges.

In the Israeli-occupied West Bank, soldiers knock down their shacks with abandon.

Then everything changes, more like shacks than farmhouses and stands of timber instead of orchards.

A 360-degree tour of Du Du's intersection now runs past a row of tents, buckled homes, a trash heap and vendors in tilted shacks.

The first town you reach is Archer's Post, a collection of dusty shacks around a truck stop.

It is a sea of aluminum and cardboard shacks that forgotten families call home.

Women sell home-made cleaning products from shacks.

Most blacks still live in shoddy shacks or bungalows without proper sanitation in poor crime-ridden townships outside the main cities.

Over 20% of the city's population are thought to live in shacks and the city cannot build cheap houses fast enough.

Many families actually live in shacks on this smoking garbage.

Southerners are now more likely to live in suburbs than in shacks, to pick stocks instead of cotton, and to wear shoes.

to the fish shacks school. the tank.

Yet many see little improvement in their own lives, finding themselves without a job in the same rickety shacks as before.

sheep shouldn't sleep in shaky shacks, should they?

And it is the view I have heard on sidewalks and in taxi cabs, in the marble halls of ministries, and in run down shacks of shanty towns.

There used to be some rough low shacks here ten years back of this.

The process of replacing them with inferior bamboo shacks is not yet complete.

They often lived in run-down shacks on the farm and were invariably poor.

A brick church without a spire was built last year, and the first shops in the town's history have opened in tin shacks.

Today, many Indonesian ethnic Chinese are still living in wooden shacks because they can NOT afford brick houses.

i ' m actually glad that the shacks were swept away