Who's Going to Read It?

An innocent anthropologist reached a small West African town, when he found a notice of a campaign against illiteracy that read:

The illiterate adult, incapable and lacking information, has always constituted an obstacle to the setting of any initiative tending towards the general upliftment of a country.

The anthropologist mused,

"It was not clear how illiterates were supposed to read the placard."

excerpts from The Innocent Anthropologist by Nigel Barley