Women in trousers - let alone in shorts - still cause some commotion here and there on the African continent. In general you only see young urban women in trousers - like the Rwandan friend in the picture. On the country side and for official occasions ladies trousers are still taboo. It is even forbidden for female representatives to wear them in Congolese Parliament. The male MP's are worried that a woman's bottom in trousers will distract them from their political work. And in Aba, Nigeria, the day before yesterday girls in trousers had to flee groups of boys who had it in for their 'indecent clothing', according to the Nigerian newspaper Vanguard Daily. The governor's wife had to interfere in order for peace to return in the town in Southern Nigeria.
