Photo from my African trip. An ordinary market at first glance,…

@optimist 23 October 2021 more from that month

Photo from my African trip. An ordinary market at first glance, vegetables, fruits. But something else is unusual here - a woman with a machine gun, ready to shoot anyone who disrupts the order. Uganda, Kampala, 2013

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6 comments

b@bestfriendalice 23 October 2021

Why is she carrying a gun? A soldier?
- @optimist 23 October 2021
  
  She keeps order in the market. Kind of like a security guard.
@Pouki 23 October 2021

I don't remember seeing something like that in my trip to Africa. Thankfully lol :) Have a great weekend!
- @optimist 23 October 2021
  
  Oh, I saw a lot of things in Africa when I traveled through five countries around Lake Victoria. People with guns are the order of the day there...
  - @Pouki 24 October 2021
    
    I've been only in two places in Africa and I guess the scariest part was when we were ready to go to the hotel, some guards with guns checked the van with this mirror thing under the car to see for bomb (!?!) and when we were into city into the bus, and they told us to have closed windows, no cameras near them and no arms with watches etc, because they could brake the glass and cut our arms to have them!!!
    - @optimist 25 October 2021
      
      Oh yes, I remember those warnings too!