Thanks Niuhuru. Africa’s people are not the spoiled ones, the corrupt despots who run everything are.
from ‘Dark Star Safari’ by Paul Theroux:
You know you are in Malawi when...
the first seven shops you pass are coffin-makers;
an old man on the road is wearing a fur-trimmed woman’s pink housecoat from the 1950’s;
the rear rack on a bike is stacked with ten uncured cow-hides;
a road-block is a bamboo pole across two barrels and the official manning it is wearing a T-shirt lettered ‘Winnipeg Blue Bombers’;
two policemen stop your minibus for no reason and at gunpoint force the fourteen passengers to pile out in the dark (and they looked at my passport for quite a long time);
the lovely smoothed tarred road abruptly becomes a rutted muddy track that is barely passable;
people start sentences with. ‘But we are suffering, sir’;
people say, apropos of nothing, ‘The day the old woman disappears is when the hyena shits gray hair’;
on the day the Minister of Finance announces his National Austerity Plan, it is revealed that thirty-eight Mercedes-Benzes have just been ordered from Germany....