The sun began to set with a swift introduction of the evening gentle breeze. She felt very tired of the day's activities and decided to take a little rest under the palm wine tree.
She lifted a bamboo chair from the big varanda and placed it under the palmwine tree. She laid on it, gently and just as she wanted to close her eyes for a bit, she felt some sensations around her legs.
Sandflies! they were all out for the evening, she lifted her wrapper and wrapped it around her legs for protection from the sandflies.
The next thing she felt on her arms was the movement of a creeping thing. She raised her heads gently and shooked it off.
Some other insects began flying around her head, which made her so uncomfortable, she shifted her wrapper to cover her whole body but it was all to no avail as the bites of the sandflies and other insects grew worse.
The night approached faster and while the sandflies seemed to reduce in numbers, there came the chief of the insects.
The mosquito!
The mosquito is greatly feared because of its abilities to distribute an illment known as malaria between two or more persons.
The mosquito flies and perches on the human skin and sucks blood directly from the vein, while sucking the human blood, it also transmits malaria to the person from which it sucks blood from.
If the Mosquito had bitten someone with malaria, and the mosquito bites on another person who did not have malaria initially, the malaria will be shared between those two people and others whom that same mosquito will infest on.
The mosquito is only able to share malaria between people, but it has not been scientifically proven that the mosquito could or has been able to share any other blood transmitting diseáse between humans.
Now to her, after she got bitten by mosquitoes, she decided not to lay under the palmwine tree any longer.
Later that night she felt like passing out faeces, she took a shovel and went into the interior parts of the bush. She dug a hole into the soil, with which she passed out the faeces into the soil and later covered it.
After excretion, she washed her hands thoroughly and headed to eat fufu and locally made atama soup, she gulped some water and later she retired to bed.
That was how a part of her night in Africa went.