Backpacks are the in-thing!

Backpack. The mention of this word almost instantly evokes images of weather-beaten, unkempt-looking mzungu tourists in faded jeans, T-shirts and sandals or trainers. As if to attest to this, there is even a Backpackers’ hostel in Mengo, a Kampala suburb, an exclusive haunt for tourists. But backpacks today are favourites not only for tourists, but any other person in travel. And it does not have to be travel in the classical sense of the word! Even travel to and from your workstation calls

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