非洲的出租車竟長這樣！看完哭到不行

"Uwunguruza abantu n’ikinga," in the Kurundi dialect of Burundi, means “bike taxi-man.” In the small East African country’s capital, Bujumbura, cyclists transport everything from human passengers to huge bundles of bananas and sugarcane to bricks and bedroom sets.
“Uwunguruza abantu n’ikinga”在布隆迪（非洲國家）方言中的意思是“自行車出租司機。”在這個東非小國的首都布瓊布拉——自行車騎手負責運輸一切，從乘客、大串大串的香蕉、甘蔗到磚頭和到臥室傢俱。

In 2013, German photographer Stephan Würth took a two-day road trip around the hilly country, snapping images on his iPhone of these ubiquitous “bike taxi-men.” He documented how “the bicycle has become an integral part of [Burundian] citizens’ daily survival,” as Joseph Akel writes in Ikinga, a new book of Würth’s photographs. In a country the IMF ranks as one of the poorest in the world — the average annual income is below $300 — many Burundians rely on bicycles as a means of supporting themselves.
2013年，德國攝影師史蒂芬·伍爾特在這個山城進行了一次爲期兩天的公路旅行，用他的蘋果手機拍下了這些無所不在的“自行車出租司機”的照片。他記錄了“自行車如何成爲[布隆迪]公民日常生存的組成部分”，約瑟夫·阿克勒在伍爾特新的攝影集中如是寫道。布隆迪是國際貨幣基金組織列表中世界上最貧窮的國家之一，其平均年收入低於300美元。很多布隆迪人把自行車作爲謀生手段。

“While the history of Burundi and its legacy of civil war and ethnic conflict cannot be ignored, Würth’s photographs, far from eschewing this legacy, offer new insights into how the nation strives to overcome its past by presenting a unique glimpse into life there today,” Akel writes. “The bicycle has become a potent symbol of how that change is playing out … Indeed, the bicycle in Burundian culture has, in many ways, come to stand in for the resilience and the ingenuity of its people.” In these candid images, a smiling young mother with her baby strapped to her back rides sidesaddle on a bike-taxi; a bike’s handlebars are decorated with stripy knitted fabrics, tassels, and reflectors; and a group of boys on bikes cling to the bumper of a fuel truck, hitching a ride.
“雖然布隆迪的歷史以及內戰和種族衝突的遺留影響無法被忽略，但伍爾特的照片沒有避開了這些，通過呈現布隆迪獨一無二的現代生活景象，給人們一個新視野瞭解這個民族如何努力克服過去。”阿克勒寫道。“自行車變成了布隆迪發生變化的有力象徵…確實，自行車在布隆迪文化中從多方面代表了布隆迪人民的毅力和聰明才智。”這些樸素照片中，一位年輕的媽媽充滿微笑，將自己的寶寶放在一輛自行車出租車後座上；自行車的手柄上裝飾着綵帶、流蘇和反光鏡；自行車上一羣男孩子手抱着油罐車的保險槓，搭個便車。