these carts are to be seen all across Tanzania, and beyond. Funny enough, local drivers who tend to be bad and impatient show some consideration to these hard working cart pushers. Maybe many of these drivers learn how to drive by pushing carts…
loads can impressive sometimes.
and by the way, many buildings along the main street have been repainted lately, mostly yellow. Much better than the old Stalinist dirty concrete grey.
bicycles can be used too as a beast of burden.
awful public transport minibuses, aka daladala here, or matatus in Kenya. A plague on the roads as the drivers are the worst ever produced. I used to travel in them when I was still a volunteer. Main problem is the van is equipped with let’s say 12 seats, designed on tiny Japanese morphology. 12…but more than 12 passengers will board. Add the chickens, a goat once, and various big bags like seen on the picture, big mamas , worse: big sweaty mamas with kids…an experience that I didn’t need to repeat in a lifetime but I did nevertheless.
on Sundays, when shops are closed, other “entrepreneurs” will squat the sidewalks and walls and closed windows to sell stuff.
trailers with food, here chicken (kuku). That’s quite a new thing around.
crossing at the disused railway near home. Shame on the government for that feat, with so little railway lines in the country, 3 basically, how is it possible to discard one? Anyway, people open business there because the speed humps haven’t been removed so cars keep on slowing down and can stop easily. Mamas selling fruit or grilled corn, one guy offering his services for gardening with his own grass mower, bicycle repair…
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