Two Lenses and a Plumbing Pipe
In her story, she couldn't afford a telescope, so she built one: two lenses from an old pair of glasses, a length of PVC plumbing pipe, tape, and months of patience on the roof at night, aligning it by trial and error until the Moon stopped wobbling and the craters came into view. That clumsy pipe was her first real instrument, and it still works before dawn on her rooftop in Niamey. She learned alone, with borrowed books, with no one ever giving her a course.







