But his parents were to divorce, and as it would not be seemly for Daby's father to be seen raising a young child on his own, Daby was sent to live with an uncle in Djeole, in the south of the country near Kaedi, on the banks of the Senegal River.

Other approaches are needed and three projects have been chosen to exemplify creative responses to past, present and future: the Kaedi Regional Hospital, Mauritania (p66), a brilliant, inventive development of new masonry techniques; the redevelopment of the Old City of Riyadh and its Great Mosque (opposite) - the evolution of a spatial morphology for the heart of a modern Arab city; the IBM tower, Kuala Lumpur, an attempt to evolve ecologically appropriate tower forms for the tropics (p70).

A 300-channel microwave telephone and telex link between Nouakchott and Kaedi in Mauritania, a distance of 255 miles, comprising 11 hops with 10 intermediate microwave radio stations, followed by a 120-channel link to Selibaby, over 185 miles away in seven hops with six intermediate stations, and then on another 47 miles to Kayes, Mali in two hops, and finally on another 155 miles to Nioro, Mali in six hops with five intermediate microwave radio stations.