A Conversation for Road Signs
Cameroon
Is mise Duncan Started conversation Apr 5, 2000
The road signs are based on French, but with a couple of interesting additions or variants:
(1) A sort of exclamation mark with no dot. This means "bridge"; but more specifically, single-lane bridge made of tree trunks. The correct behaviour when you meet one of these is to see if anything is coming the other way and asses it's relative size as compared to your own vehicle. This gives you the priority rule. Now barrel along across the bridge at absolutely full pelt, or nerves will take over and you will fall off.
(2) The word "bou" on a square sign. This means "mud on the road", but as the majority of roads are not paved and Cameroon has about the third or fourth highest annual rainfall in the world, these signs are really superfluous.
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