Uganda: Ndeeba, the Home of the Bodaboda
Feb. 25
They can be found in every almost every corner of the country, but almost all boda bodas that whiz past us on the roads have once been 'residents' of Ndeeba Every town has a distinctive feature that makes it stand out from the rest and Ndeeba certainly meets that standard. You will look on in awe at so many boda bodas lying, standing, and whizzing by endlessly once you are in Ndeeba. The boda bodas are paraded between the front of buildings and just off the road for display. Shops by the tens, one after another, each with their brand of boda bodas, stand by the roadside from here on. "Majority of the boda bodas that are imported into Ndeeba from Japan especially, are second hand," says Mohammed Semugenyi, a sales person at Sunflower Trading International Limited. While some of the second hand boda bodas on display look their antonym, some are visibly wrecked, with rusting exhaust pipes, torn and worn seats, and missing driving, or is it, riding mirrors.
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