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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 11.00am daily."
On a river in the Democratic Republic of Congo:
"Take note: When this sign is submerged, the river is impassable."
In a Zimbabwean 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 own
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 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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