Signs of Africa
I love the signs you see when you’re travelling anywhere in the world and my bicycle ride through Africa last month turned up plenty of them. I rode the Iringa (Tanzania) to Lilongwe (Malawi) stage of the Tour d’Afrique cycle ride and here are a few of my favourites along the way.
It may not be a sign but the currently popular kanga in Tanzania summed up a few things! A kanga is a traditional Tanzanian cloth, like a sarong, with a proverb in Swahili. Current favourite is the Barack Obama kanga with Hongera Barack Obama – ‘Congratulations Barack Obama’ – around his portrait and Upendo Na Amani Ametujalia Mungu along the bottom – ‘God has granted us love and peace.’
Click here for more African signs as I bicycled from Tanzania into Malawi.
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