Street merchants

In Lubumbashi are many established businesses like petrol stations and fabric shops (first two photos), streetside shops offering a wide array of services, and a multitude of street vendors.

Notice in the fourth photo the women who are selling baked goods and hot foods undeterred by construction men working with a pile of dirt directly in front of them.

Two entrepreneurial enterprises that are apparent everywhere in Africa are cell phone cards and gasoline being sold in plastic jugs along the streets (photos five and six below).

In a downtown square were merchants with displays of paper and pen supplies under umbrellas (photo seven). Along the street one may purchase practical use items like wheelbarrows and charcoal briquets for cookers, fruits and vegetables from a bounteous selection, fresh eggs, baked goods and dried fish from the Lubumbashi River.

The last photo is representative of street vendors who sell a wide variety of goods from brooms to shoes.