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Reading the signs (in northern Namibia: #7 in series)

In northern Namibia – and just about anywhere else in Southern Africa – the pictured takeaway food outlet’s “alarming” sign would cause no unease whatsoever, nor would its meaning be unclear.

”Russians” – with or without chips – have long been a great favourite of southern Africans, whether “dining out” or “cooking up” in their own homes.

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Reading the signs (in northern Namibia. #1 in series)

 

 

 

The photo (copyright Doug Spencer, taken on 08 November 2022) shows a typical northern Namibian shebeen.

Signage in northern Namibia often provides visitors with delight…and/or surprise, confusion, bewilderment…

You’ll find no superb photography in this single-image series; almost everything in it was shot “on the fly”, through the window of “our” bus, as it zoomed past one one of many thousands of owner-operated businesses.

All were small, in reality.

However, their signs often “talked big”…

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Waterhole at night, Etosha, northern Namibia (3 of 3: giraffes)

 

Giraffes harvest most of the water they need from the leaves they eat, so they do not need to drink every day.

However, they do need to drink.

On that occasion, the current world’s longest necks are “not long enough”.

As every lion and crocodile knows, the only occasion when it is a good idea to “move in for the kill” on an adult giraffe is when that giraffe is drinking.

Every giraffe is acutely conscious that his or her “killer kick” defence system is entirely disabled whenever s/he has to splay his/her legs to enable his/her neck to reach down far enough to make drinking possible.

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