Jette - Petauke

MENNESKER - PEOPLE

Folk fra Petauke er fantastisk åbne og venlige mennesker, og man kan ikke lade være med at føle sig godt tilpas i deres selskab.
Petaukeans are extremely open and friendly and you can't help feeling at ease in their company.

Frisurer - Hairstyles

Zambianske kvinder har de mest fantastiske frisurer og tager tit kunstigt hår til hjælp. De skifter meget tit både hår og frisure, så jeg sommetider havde svært ved at kende dem.

Zambian women have the most fantastic hairstyles and ofte make use of artificial hair. They change their hairstyles very often so sometimes I found it hard to recognize them

Irene er ikke fra Petauke, men Lusaka. Hun er af Lozi-stammen og gift med min ven Henrik fra Mfuwe.
Irene is not from Petauke but a Lozi girl from Lusaka and married to my friend Henrik from Mfuwe.

Mænd i Petauke har efter min opfattelse ikke noget, der ligner kvindernes fantasi mht. frisurer - Herover ses de tre stadier af mændenes standardfrisure. Min kære - og nærmeste - kollega Emmanuel Chabu (til venstre) har lige fået sin sædvanlige økonomiklipning (eller skulle jeg kalde det barbering?), der så ender cirka som mandens i baggrunden, før han atter går til barberere ligesom alle andre - næsten.
Det er ikke imidlertid alle, der har samme frisure - selv om dreadlocks normalt dækkes i Petauke, muligvis pga. det røde støv, der er overalt.

Men in Petauke are in my view not very imaginative compared to women as far as hairstyles are concerned. Above examples of the three stages of the standard male hairstyle are shown: Emmanuel Chabu, my dear - and closest - colleague (left), has just had his usual economy cut (or perhaps I should call it a headshave), and when his hair is nearing the length of that of the gentleman behind him, he will go to the barber's again - like everybody else (almost).
Not all hairstyles, however, are alike - although dreadlocks are usually covered in Petauke, possibly because of the red dust that's everywhere

De sidste billeder er dog ikke taget i Petauke - billedet herunder er fra Rhapsody's, et af de dyre steder i Lusaka - The last pictures, however, were not taken in Petauke - the one below is from Rhapsody's, one of the posh places in Lusaka