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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