The things they carry

On backs:
- Babies, from the teeny newborns nestled in tightly to toddlers big enough to trot unsteadily on their own two legs struggling to escape. Tiny feet sticking out over mothers' hips, toes wiggling.

On heads (cushioned with a banana leaf ring):
- Baskets of produce, off to the market
- Huge 100 kilograms bags of rice, flour, wheat
- Branches of huge green bananas
- Jerrycans of milk, water, or petrol
- One sneaker
- Suitcases, backpacks and briefcases, or whatever has been fashioned to stand in for those
- Stacks of cds
- A radio (blaring)
- PVC piping or planks of wood, emerging four feet to the front and back
- Hoes, shovels and saws
- A refridgerator (running up a hill...)
- An upside-down dining room table, with the four matching chairs balanced on top

On trucks:
- 25-high stacks of Rwanda Foam mattresses
- Goats and cows, tails tied to the frame
- More humans than you would think could fit

On bicycles:
- Anything you'd carry on your head
- Crates of soda and beer (stacks up to 5 high)
- Live goats, tied firmly in place
- Passengers (men straddling, women side-saddle, babies in between rider and driver)
- Rolled-up mattresses, stacks of bedding
- 3 foot tall silver cans of milk
- Yellow plastic jerrycans tied onto the sides
- Any combination of any of the above

We lack beasts of burden here. People overwhelmingly use their bodies, instead.