Lamu Cement-bag Bellows (AfriGadget) from afri afri Watch Video
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Description: I was in Lamu in June and came upon a metal workshop tucked away behind the front row of buildings on the main path from Lamu Town to Shela.Inside were two blacksmiths, Adam Marabu and Abdul Ahmed, working diligently at creating a new anchor.What caught my eye though, was the bellows.They had taken old cement bags and hooked them up to metal pipes in the floor that fed air into the make-shift furnace.nnOne of my favorite stories on AfriGadget was the other unique bellows I found, this ti