Around the coast and the capital there are houses which have access to electricity and telephones.
Some buildings are modern

Families live together in compounds with more than one home behind the walls

As you travel further from the coast you see villages with mud brick houses and thatched roofs. Can you see the bricks drying?
There is no electricity

Around Janjanbureh the houses are often concrete blocks with corrugated tin roofs

Look carefully at the uncovered roofs.

They are beautifully constructed