Rwanda Landscape and Memory


"Aka Benzi" on the road. The pig is an animal with low status. People who sell pork in the villages advertise it not as Pig but as Aka benzi- Aka is a diminutive prefix- Like - y in english. So we are saying this is a little Mercedes Benz and in doing so elevating the status by playfully renaming it."- Norbert Ntitsimburwa
Brendan Bannon 4 Mar 2014
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