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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