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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 |
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Population of Kampala = 1.6 million
Slum population, Kampala = 1.5 million
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Monday, 21 July 2008 |
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 $0.027 US Dollars on July 21, 2008 (Getty Images)
Exchange rates
Real exchange rate: $1 USD = $18 billion Zimbabwean Dollars
“Official” exchange rate: $1 USD = $30,000 Zimbabwean Dollars
Result: The select few can buy US Dollars at the “official” rate, and buy luxury cars on the cheap.
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Monday, 21 July 2008 |
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 Sadza (Mealie meal) - Guess what in this picture is now missing from Zimbabwean's diet?
Some facts
- A loaf of bread now costs the equivalent of one-third of an average employed person’s monthly income.
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Friday, 18 July 2008 |
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Sorting through 2nd-hand clothes at Mchovu ghetto-fashion house, Kinondoni, Dar es Salaam
"Mtumba" is Swahili slang for 2nd-hand clothes imported from Europe and USA, and sold to retailers in bales. In 1960s and 70s these were referred to as “kafa ulaya” (which means 'clothes from someone who died in Europe'!). In the 1980s came "Mtumba".
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Friday, 18 July 2008 |
Seck, representing Pikine, is kitted out in what is referred to in Dakar as "Papershit" or "Dirty South style", kinda like the rapper Lil Wayne of "I make it rain" (featuring Phat Joe).
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