Washing clothes, el banco, Yopougon township, near Abidgan, Ivo
TOWNSHIP LIFE, Ivory Coast. Washing clothes, el banco, Yopougon, near Abidjan. West Africa. A huge sprawling township across the lagoon from the capital. It has a population of over a million. Yopougon has been the site of numerous massacres, a flash point, problems between Muslims and Christians. Residents are often poor and living in shanties.