boda-boda

With the help of a small loan from us, he opened a boda-boda spare parts shop not far from the main road to Jinja.

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Chris: Raises eyebrows while making eye contact with boda-boda driver.

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The city may be solving one problem, but as one boda-boda driver suggests, it's creating other issues in the process.

CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2007

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We like the boda-bodas because we have so many people in Uganda that doesn't have (inaudible), but (inaudible) boda-boda to get money for (inaudible) families.

CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2007

VALENCIA: Khalid (ph) is one of the roughly 10,500 boda-boda drivers in Kampala.

CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2007

In contrast, boda-boda drivers make roughly $150 a month.

CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2007

BOND: So cheap, boda-boda drivers say they're losing out to cheaper mini-buses, capable of carrying more passengers at lower cost.

CNN Transcript Apr 14, 2001

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When you travel from here (inaudible) 300, but for the boda-boda, we will get them about 2000 (inaudible).

CNN Transcript Apr 14, 2001

BOND: It's said by some that boda-boda got their name taking passengers from border to border, across the no-man's land between customs posts at Uganda's frontiers.

CNN Transcript Apr 14, 2001

In Uganda's recent presidential election, boda-boda drivers symbolized the political constituency of the small entrepreneur.

CNN Transcript Apr 14, 2001