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- noun A
cone -shaped mud hut, usually with a thatched roof, found in eastern and northeastern Africa
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Examples
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She had just come from surgery and invited me into the reception, the tukul, rather than talk in the middle of the garden where we had met Mamietu Gashe just back from the US having received another honorary degree.
Heidi Kingstone: Africa's Forgotten Tragedy -- A Cursed Woman 2009
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Even more impressive, he had boosted the well-being of his family as well: With the added income, they moved out of a traditional mud-brick tukul and into a brick and concrete house furnished with a refrigerator, television and DVD player, rare luxuries for a farmer in one of the world's poorest countries.
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"They destroyed the police station, some tukul huts and watering holes for animals," Mr. Ajuong said.
NYT > Global Home By JOSH KRON 2011
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Most villages are traditional tukul compounds but that is changing.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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In addition to the exhibit, which also includes a replica of a tukul, a traditional Ethiopian hut, you can also visit the permanent gallery, where an illustrated timeline features some of the first African Americans who settled in the Pacific Northwest, like George Washington, who founded Centralia.
The Seattle Times 2010
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By Peter Goodspeed, National PostOctober 22, 2009 8: 49 PM Kufu Mohamed cries outside his tukul as his mother Amima arrives home with the body of his four-year-old sister Michu who died of malnutrition near Sheshemene, southern photo.
WN.com - Articles related to Ethiopia demands urgent food for millions 2009
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By Peter Goodspeed, National PostOctober 22, 2009 8: 49 PM Kufu Mohamed cries outside his tukul as his mother Amima arrives home with the body of his four-year-old sister Michu who died of malnutrition near Sheshemene, southern photo.
WN.com - Articles related to Ethiopia to seek urgent food aid 2009
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First they create a wooden frame then mud is packed together to cover the wood frame, cow dung is then applied on top of the mud and sanded down so that if the family wants they can paint their tukul.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009
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Kufu Mohamed cries outside his tukul as his mother Amima arrives home with the body of his four-year-old sister Michu who died of malnutrition near Sheshemene, southern Ethiopia.
unknown title 2009
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By Peter Goodspeed, National PostOctober 22, 2009 8: 49 PM Kufu Mohamed cries outside his tukul as his mother Amima arrives home with the body of his four-year-old sister Michu who died of malnutrition near
WN.com - Articles related to Ethiopia Appeals For Urgent Food Aid 2009
bilby commented on the word tukul
"The only newsworthy events occurred when the Ethiopians screwed up in some all too predictable way, as happened, for example, at Ibnat, overzealous officials, in a ham-fisted attempt to get the famine victims to return to their own areas in time to take advantage of the belg rains and remove a focus of epidemic and disease in their area, burned down their straw tukuls."
- 'Resetlement, Ethiopia, 1985', Germaine Greer in The Madwoman's Underclothes.
September 1, 2008