Poda-poda proclamations

Most of the minibus taxis plying Sierra Leone's potholed roads sport rather dramatic proclamations across their battered, road-worn noses. The vast majority are religious -- divided roughly evenly between Christian, Muslim, and indeterminate -- and a good number (oddly) echo American patriotic phrases.

Here's a selection that I spotted in just one morning commute:

In God We Trust
Live on Hope
De Commoners
God na God (a Krio phrase meaning "God is God")
United We Stand
God Bless
Face Reality
Mother's Blessing
Fear Judgement Day
Praise Be to God

And two of my favorites that I see periodically around Freetown:

I am covered in the blood of Jesus Christ
and
The Sorriest Part