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Signs of 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 9.00am and 11.00am daily."

On a river in the Democratic Republic of Congo: "Take note: when this sign
is submerged, the river is impassable."

In a Zimbabwean resturant: "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."

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 a 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."