On our way to an outlying community the other day, we came across an accident. A young man on a motorcycle had either hit something or been hit. His bike was in the middle of the road, showing damage, and he was laying on the shoulder being attended to by a passerby. The injured man was obviously in pain. As we came upon the scene a tro-tro stopped, and everyone got out, and headed over to him to help. People here simply do that. If you are in trouble on the road, others will come to your aid. There is a criminal element, of course, and things are less safe after dark. As pointed out in a previous post, all middle and upper class housing sits in compounds most of which employ private security. Nevertheless, in the daylight when the general populace is out, people help one another. And they get along without road rage and the like. Having mentioned middle and upper class housing, let me address the less fortunate. They tend to live in shanties or in unguarded blocks of concrete flats:
A shanty community. The red shipping containers shown here are commonly made into homes in such communities.
Blocks of concrete flats.
Elder Emfield
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