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Signs that you won't find anywhere else in the world except in Africa.

 

 

 

In a restaurant in Zambia:

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Open seven days a week and weekends

 

On the grounds of a private school in South Africa:

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No tresspassing without permission

 

 

 

On a window of a Nigerian shop:

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Why go elsewhere to be cheated when you can come here?

 

 

 

On a sign in Ghana:

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Are you an adult who cannot read?

If so, we can help.

 

 

 

In a hotel in Mozambique:

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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:

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Take note: When this sign is submerged, the river is impassable.

 

 

 

In a Zimbabwean restaurant:

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Customers who find our waitresses rude ought to see the manager.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A sign seen on a hand dryer in a Lesotho public toilet:

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Risk of electric shock.

Do not activate with wet hands.

 

 In a Botswana jewellery shop:

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Ears pierced

while you wait

 

On one of the buildings of a Sierra Leone hospital:

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Mental Health Prevention Centre

 

 

 

In a maternity ward of a clinic in Tanzania:

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No children allowed !

 

 

 

In a cemetry in Uganda:

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Persons are prohibited from picking flowers from any but their own graves.

 

 

 

 In a Malawi hotel:

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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:

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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:

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Ladies are not allowed to have children in the bar.

In a photo studio in Chitungwiza(Zimbabwe):

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Photos taken while you wait