Videos of Everyday Life in Africa
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I trained Sheng Long and Shonuff
It looks like 2020 is when they're thinking it might be totally complete.
shyt looks incredible
y'all got a negro wanting to take that flight to the motherland too bad I'm a broke boy
Go head and get you a couple certs breh. They should be half off on black friday
mbewane
Knicks: 93 til infinity
I posted the statue because it's a dope statue breh. I know the muslims aren't happy with it, but it's the largest statue on the continent breh. shyt's dope as fukk
Muslims is like the whole damn country
I don't know about the "dopeness" of it, it's impressive for sure, in the sense taht it's huge, but a lot of people from Dakar I met there and here don't really like it Good thing if Sall blocked that, but to call the statue "African Renaissance" and you see in which conditions it was built...kind of ironic if you ask me.
I read all that after googling it, but it's a dope statue, and I still want to visit.
Much better than the world's largest church (at the time at least) which I visited in the Ivory Coast which was amazingly expensive yet surround by some of the poorest people I had ever come across in my life.
Seems like a step in the right direction to me.
Yamoussoukro
the kid
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I was in the Ivory Coast in January of this year. Beautiful place. Stayed in Abidjan, so I mainly saw an urbanized view of the continent. When I ventrued outside of the city, I saw some of the less technologically advanced areas. Still beautiful
My impressions from the trip:
The Beauty: I loved being there. Seeing the Atlantic from the other side, seeing all the beautiful black faces had me feeling some kind of way. Tears of joy man
Wealth Disparity: There are levels to this sh!t, meaning the diparity between the haves and have nots is stark and aparent. Its similar to Baltimore, for thos who have been, where there is wealth and poverty side by side, on the same block even.
The Language Gap: I do not speak French. I was there visiting a law school classmate who grew up in Cote' d'Ivore. The language barrier was difficult to handle for me, but I made it by. The next time I travel to the continent, I will travel to an English speaking counry.
The Culture Shock: There, your word is truly your bond. We took a taxi to the beach one afternoon. Thats a 45 minute ride to the beach one way. But we were out of town and were gonna need a taxi to take us back when we were done. We negotiated with a driver who agreed to come back and pick us up 4 hours later after we were done at the beach. We offered him half when we arrived at the beach. He replied in French, that, no, he would take all the money after he dropped us off safely that night. We could have easily got another cab to get ushome from the beach and skipped out on paying the man who got us there. That type of transaction would never happen here, because it required us to trust he would return and him to trust that we would not flake on the deal and find another way home.
My impressions from the trip:
The Beauty: I loved being there. Seeing the Atlantic from the other side, seeing all the beautiful black faces had me feeling some kind of way. Tears of joy man
Wealth Disparity: There are levels to this sh!t, meaning the diparity between the haves and have nots is stark and aparent. Its similar to Baltimore, for thos who have been, where there is wealth and poverty side by side, on the same block even.
The Language Gap: I do not speak French. I was there visiting a law school classmate who grew up in Cote' d'Ivore. The language barrier was difficult to handle for me, but I made it by. The next time I travel to the continent, I will travel to an English speaking counry.
The Culture Shock: There, your word is truly your bond. We took a taxi to the beach one afternoon. Thats a 45 minute ride to the beach one way. But we were out of town and were gonna need a taxi to take us back when we were done. We negotiated with a driver who agreed to come back and pick us up 4 hours later after we were done at the beach. We offered him half when we arrived at the beach. He replied in French, that, no, he would take all the money after he dropped us off safely that night. We could have easily got another cab to get ushome from the beach and skipped out on paying the man who got us there. That type of transaction would never happen here, because it required us to trust he would return and him to trust that we would not flake on the deal and find another way home.
↓R↑LYB
I trained Sheng Long and Shonuff
Muslims is like the whole damn country
Dope is absolutely the right word breh, primarily for the reasons the Muslims there hate it. You gotta giant monument of an African family and ole girls thigh game is on point
. I'll probably jerk off to that picture tonight real talk
mbewane
Knicks: 93 til infinity
Dope is absolutely the right word breh, primarily for the reasons the Muslims there hate it. You gotta giant monument of an African family and ole girls thigh game is on point
I'll probably jerk off to that picture tonight real talk
FreddyCalhoun
All Star
That shyt looks beautiful breh. Growing up the cacs had me brainwashed media had me got me thinking everybody in Africa live in huts and shyt, but they look just like us over there.
I felt the same way...I want to move breh....
DonFrancisco
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The world isn't that dangerous outside the U.S. Actually outside a few countries that are war torn areas, not too many nations have the social problems of the U.S. You will never hear about Chile, France, or many nations in Africa have the frequency and violence of school shoots like the U.S. Not too many places in the world can breed people like Adam Lanza and yet be so terrible in trying to help people like that.
BmoreGorilla
Veteran
White people hate on everything we do that doesn't benefit themI'm watching videos of Eko Atlantic on YouTube and so many white people in there hating
DonFrancisco
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Also 46% of undergrad have HS equivalent jobs....I mean the biggest selling point in the US are jobs, what is the point of living here if your job is a$$ and you don't get private benefits (lots of nations developed and developing have social services that we would only dream in the US). I love the U.S. it makes me who I am but this place isn't perfect nor the only place to live by any measure.
The American dream is happening everywhere in the world. You gotta just hustle as hard as an American, that's all we have over most of the world, hustle till death mentality. The only problem is that we are being hustled ourselves and acquire debt we can't pay off.
The American dream is happening everywhere in the world. You gotta just hustle as hard as an American, that's all we have over most of the world, hustle till death mentality. The only problem is that we are being hustled ourselves and acquire debt we can't pay off.
Governance bruh Governance can make all these dreams happen
DonFrancisco
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Capitalism is too entrenched, it will always exist. Now you can level the playing field by having tax funded health systems, schools, and universities. Of course those have their own sets of problems you will have to deal with. It is up to every nation and culture to find the right mix (quite difficult I might add).
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Larry Lobster
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Wrong.