Artisanal Activities

The blacksmith is essential in a Togolese village. This activity is most of the time reserved to men because of the physical effort asking. During hours, he steel size to make tools for the field resold to farmers. On this picture you can see the blacksmith at right holding the piece of steel, at left the worker hitting the piece of iron to create a shape. It is a ancestral technic that is repeated from father to son, 

Today we are not used to see anymore blacksmith in developed country due to the industrialisation so it was really interesting for me to see this traditional process.