Every year famine returns: the Kononga people (northern Burkina Faso) depend on seasonal rains for their survival. In this area of the world, desertification has gone on for generations, and the local peo- ple are unable to face this natural process without outside help. While awaiting the end of the wor- ld"”their world, the villagers (animalists, Muslims and Christians) place their fate in God's hands.
