Ndiyo, tunaweza!

I think we have mentioned the Kenyan vendors at Riverwalk who sell tables of Africa-abilia, most of it from Kenya. By contrast, I am sure that most of the vendors on the Main Mall in town are Batswana selling indigenous goods - baskets, walking sticks, bowls, earrings, prepared food, mopani worms, morula fruits, grains, cooked maize on the cob, sweets, 'air time' for mobile phones, handmade sandals, old CDs and so on. At Riverwalk today we noticed that one of the Kenyan women was selling Tanzanian khangas - the pieces of cloth that Kenyan and Tanzanian women wear wrapped around their skirts. They always have a 'saying' on them in Kiswahili, as well as a picture or just a pattern. We had many of them as Peace Corps Volunteers in Kenya. Anyway, we found and bought one that said: 'Ndiyo, tunaweza' - 'Yes, we can.' And guess whose picture was on it? I was told that the Batswana and the 'whites' (later clarified as Americans) are snapping them up.