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Episode: Jumping lights, driving down one-way streets, Ugandan motorcycles provide employment and traffic chaos
Description: Cheap motorcycles in Uganda are both a blessing and a curse for the capital Kampala—they provide employment for the country’s young population but are also seen as an urban menace in the congested streets.
It can look like a game of Russian roulette on these roads in the Ugandan capital Kampala. Motorcycles weave between traffic, jump red lights, and carry precariously balanced loads they were never designed to haul.
Locally, the bikes are known as boda bodas, a derivation from “Border Border,” the familiar cry of bike couriers selling goods between the Ugandan and Kenyan border.
For the boda bod...