Malawians have been travelling abroad to seek
  > > > greener pastures. Many are nurses who eventually
  > > > take their husbands with them. Unfortunately, these men
  > > > can't find decent jobs and find themselves doing the
  > > > rat race or funny jobs just to make ends meet.
  > > >
  > > > So one of them finds a job as a zoo attendant.
  > > > But as there are not many wild animals in UK zoos,
  > > > the institution decides to hire people and have them
  > > > pretend to be zoo animals - dressed in real animal
  > > > skins so as to keep zoo attendance figures up.
  > > >
  > > > Our Malawian friend happily takes up one of the jobs
  > > > dresses up in a monkey skin doing all sorts of
  > > > acrobatics swinging from tree to tree.
  > > >
  > > > As he is busy entertaining people, he accidentally
  > > > falls in a lions den. The lion roars so loudly that
  > > > the "Monkey" shouts Mayoooo, Mayooo ndafa ine! Then
  > > > the lion approaches the ALMOST DEAD "monkey" and
  > > > says
  > > > 'Usaope kwambili , inenso ndi wa pa NYASA!" Tonse tili
  > > > limodzi.
  > > >
  > > > It was such a dramatic event that on that day ticket
  > > > sales almost doubled!!
  > > > Yet till now, nobody knew that those animals were
  > > > well and trully Nyasa guys!
  > > >


-- Edited by BOMBA at 19:14, 2006-10-03