Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Ghanians can sleep anywhere


Here is another example of my hypothesis that Ghanians can sleep anywhere. This young man is one of our modern day handcart pushers. Who needs a handcart trek to live like the pioneers? These carts are used all over West Africa for hauling small and sometimes large loads. It usually requires 2 - one in the front and one in the rear. Sometimes on a downhill slope you'll see both pusher and puller having a hair raising ride since there is no brake. This young man's partner happened to be on the other side of the sidewalk, sleeping sitting up against the wall. He hasn't parked himself in a great rest spot since there was a steady stream of cars turning right and left at this junction (corner) and having to edge carefully around his empty cart, but he wasn't moving a muscle and was decidedly out of touch with what was happening around him.

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