During our years in the Congo we've seen people move amazing amounts of things in handcarts, sometimes called chariots, sometimes called pousse-pousses. We see many of them every day. There are no animals here to pull and push these carts, just men struggling with the heavy loads they carry.
The term "pousse-pouse" comes from the French word to push, pousser.
But this is the most amazing one we've seen.
This little pousse-pousse was carrying a transport bus.
The most pathetic part of this story is that in the horrible, congested traffic of Blvd. Lumumba, this little pousse-pousse hauling a transport passed us and the functioning transports full of people around us.
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