Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Heavy Load, Heavy Pants in the city of Accra
A young porter-boy on the Spintex Road conveys a bulky barrel full of something weighty on his clean-shaven head. The barrel, it’s the size of a compact car, and I’m wondering what’s in there when my eyes catch the droop of something. He’s trudging along with 2 other boys – one in front and the other behind. Whether it is pitiable penury or purloined prison or pop culture, I don’t know, but the purpose of the boy behind is to hoist up his sagging jumbo trousers which flop below his knees with every few steps.
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You understand now man! I would go for pop culture. The more it falls the better the sway and the more the swagger in the step.
ReplyDeletehahahhaha... at first i was amused, then not so much... what if it's "pitiable penury?" But even then, there are more creative ways of keeping one's pants on than having a personal hoister!
ReplyDeleteOk, talking about strange sightings in Accra, what's with the random overgrown fingernail?!
LOL...yeh has said my mind. Why not tie the pants up?
ReplyDeleteIt is innovation and ingenuity at its best.
ReplyDeleteThe story is that they are apprentice porters and as part of their learning experience, they have to deal with that indignity, as a new learning curve they have to overcome, in order to brace themselves for all the greater indignities they have to grapple with, later as chief porters
Is this a new youth employment scheme? Maybe I can hire someone to pull up my socks?
ReplyDeletei hate it
ReplyDeleteJumbo Pants---- classic!
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