[Oorang]

This morning I was talking to a family member who spent a good portion of 3 decades in and out of Africa for his job (DoD). He still has contacts in various African countries and I asked him if he had heard from anyone regarding the ebola crisis. He had not but he said one of the problems with Africa and these types of diseases are the customs

" like most of the people in Africa they still believe in magic, voodoo, evil spirits, and much, much, more. Remember, these are the people who believe if they paint themselves the right color (white, if memory serves) that bullets cannot harm them when they go to war"

[Black Agnes]

In some countries, maybe. Nigeria, particularly the southern part where there’s been oil money for nearly 2 generations, is less like that than other countries in West Africa.

I’ve been looking at some of the pictures from Lagos, for example, and have a hard time reconciling those with my memories from 40+ years ago. It was mud huts and tin roofed shacks then. Now it’s townhouses and paved streets. It’s like Dubai’s change over the past decades, only in Africa.