When life started coming back to Juba in 2005 (I was one of the first to arrive there by road) they said the motor-bike boys were the cause of AIDS. Juba had been totally enclaved and had virtually no AIDS at all.

They may have been right.

A major result though was accidents made worse as the roads got tarmacked and the average speed rose, along with the average consumption of alcohol tots in the small sachets cheaply available.

One of the evening roles of motor-bike guys (who are called 'clando-man' here in Chad, motard in Congo. boda-boda boys in most other places) is to bring the guy to the gal or the gal to the guy. We used them as peer educators in Goma and told them to carry condoms to give/sell (and let's face it, use).

Barry