It did not take long to learn that cutting fields required backbreaking work. We planned to clear two acres by August. The young men wanted to plant peanuts and hoped to yield eight to twelve sacks of peanuts per acre. I suggested they could use the wood they cut to build pig pens. I promised to buy them a female pig to start a pig-raising business. My medical training did not prepare me for this.
Luba, Bola, and Mpia decided to try farming. I went to the village to help them select a field to cut. Each family had its allotted ancestral land. The senior member of each family gave permission where one could acquire a piece of property. Luba's birthplace was the village of Liamba. He asked his uncle for a property, and his uncle agreed to give him an acre of land.
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