Friday Funny – An Act of Faith or Why Women Live Longer

We pass a Mosque on Masaka Road on the way to Kampala. It’s a fairly new building, built since we arrived in Uganda. But they skimped a little on construction.

The result is that 5 times a day, a man has to climb the ladder seen in this picture to deliver the Muslim prayer call. Two of those times are in the dark.

I’m pretty sure this is either a great act of (misplaced) faith or another reason that women live longer than men. You can decide which it is.

(Sorry for the wonky picture. I took it while we were driving and a hundredth of a second before a truck came by the other way and blocked my shot. It isn’t well centered and you get too much road and car portions and the bill of James’ ball cap. If you look at the very top of the picture, you can see the platform onto which the man climbs when he delivers the prayer call.)