"One Zambia, One Nation" is Zambia'a motto, the country's first president, Kenneth Kaunda, made a point of establishing policies and using tools that would promote nation-building.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Street Vendors, is that a duck?

Something I wanted to tell you all about the the street vendors.  They are unlike anything I have experienced in the US.  Everyday at any hour there are dozens of people selling things at each intersection, but what they sell is what is so surprising.  So far typical things that are sold are football jerseys, our soccer, pirated dvd's and cd's, one really pushy man wanted us to buy his Lionel Richie cd and could not understand why we didn't want it.  But my real purpose for telling you all about this is that I have also see a person carrying two live ducks for sale in his arms, toilet plungers, and used children's mirrors.  Sughra, our roomie even told me a story of how she was proposed to by a street vendor when she didn't want to buy his light-up, fish in the center, bouncy ball.  Pictures to come....

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