Day labor or piece work that villagers do to earn money or as a
last resort for food when they cannot
work on their own farms. Often used in Malawi and parts of Sahara Africa.
"In Malawi, we say these people are “grooving” through life, just living off small ganyu and having no real plan. I started worrying that I would become like them, that one day
the windmill project would lose its excitement or become too
difficult to maintain, and all my ambitions would fade into the maize rows.
Forgetting dreams is easy. To fight that kind of darkness, I kept returning to the library every week."