Heard in Africa - Talk and greetings

Watch out..... elephants crossing

I have been in Gulu and some parts of Uganda long enough to be able to notice some peculiarities.  The pictures here, are to me,  unique as well. 

A flock of maribou storck

Conversations usually do not dwell on the past.  It is about today.  If you talk about tomorrow, you can be sure it is uncertain.

Notice the hump

Whether oral or written communication, the buzzwords are challenges, mainstreaming, cross-cutting, vulnerabilities, sensitized.

Greetings and handshakes are not to be overlooked. Greetings do not just come as a curt How are you.  It is long winded - how is home, how is everyone in your family.  A mazungu was greeted once with the question - how did you sleep last night, and she answered... Oh with my eyes closed.

Patiently waiting for a bus?