HERE ARE SOME SIGNS THAT YOU WON'T FIND ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD EXCEPT IN AFRICA
In a restaurant in Zambia: "Open seven days a week and weekends." On the grounds of a private school in South Africa: " No trespassing without Permission." On a window of a Nigerian shop: " Why go elsewhere to be cheated when you can come here?." On a poster in Ghana: " Are you an adult who cannot read? If so, we can help. " In a hotel in Mozambique: " Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the hours of 9.00 am and 11.00 am daily." On a river in the Democratic Republic of Congo: " Take note: When this sign is submerged, the river is impassable." In a Zimbabwean restaurant: "Customers who find our waitresses rude ought to see the manager." A sign seen on a hand dryer in a Lesotho public toilet: "Risk of electric shock - Do not activate with wet hands." In a Botswana jewellery shop: " Ears pierced while you wait." On one of the buildings of a Sierra Leone hospital: " Mental Health Prevention Centre." In a maternity ward of a clinic in Tanzania: " No children allowed!" In a cemetery in Uganda: " Persons are prohibited from picking flowers from any but their graves". In a Malawi hotel: "It is forbidden to steal towels please. If you are not a person to do such a thing, please don't read this notice." Also inside a Malawian Lakeside bar: " We have agreed with the Banks that they sell No beer and we give No Credit! A sign posted in an Algerian tourist camping park: "It is strictly forbidden on our camping site that people of different sex, for instance a man and woman, live together in one tent unless they are married to each other for that purpose." In a Namibian nightclub: " Ladies are not allowed to have children in the bar."
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