‘You know, in the villages there is a town crier who tells everyone the news. The people go out to fields in the morning and, when they come back to the village, the town crier goes around to tell them the news. Maybe the chief’s daughter has taken ill or a government engineer came to inspect the borehole – things like that. Even maybe you will be in your hut resting and he will speak loudly to the people on the street so that you will also hear the news from inside your home