Peycouk

On a blackboard under a baobab tree in the Senegalese town of Peycouk, Samba meticulously spells out a vocabulary lesson for his 20 students, a piece of chalk clenched between the nubby fingers of his leprosy-scarred hand. ”It’s not a hardship, it’s not a punishment — it’s something that can happen to anyone,” he said, keeping his hands in view instead of hiding them in the folds of his robe.