Boda-Boda

In Uganda, bicycles are very important in the citizen's lifes. Generally, bicycles are used by rich people for training in one hand, and in other by low-class people who use it for earning a living.
In kampala they use bicycles for so many ways. They are using for transporting people as taxi, and for heavy luggage. Boda-Boda, with means connecting to a border, which they also call manuel bikes.
The most typical boda - bodas are named Roadster bicycles. It normally has two chairs; one for the carrier and the other for the customer, which is made on sponge. The boda-boda's carriers enjoy their jobs. The take care of their bicycles, most of them wash them every day and people respect them. Most boda-boda's carriers say that they are proud of their their bicycles because they know that they cannot have something to eat without them. And they don't think that they are able to do anything different than that. Sometimes, boda-boda carrier's have to name their bicycles and the name and the colour, dependent on their favorite team, are written on the spong of the carrier. In Uganda, people start gradually with bicycles and when they see that they are able to affer themselves a motorcycle or motorbike, they buy it, and they change their life, earning more money. People with six bicycles, for example. use some to deliver ice-cream and the others to rent out.
On the whole, in Uganda, bicycles are very useful for people, in particular to transport people, heavy luggage, to deliver ice-cream, etc... It also the source of revenue for low-clas people.


Jean