everyday I ate the same meal a huge communal bowl of rice with fish and some vegetables. each day the family I live was spent a good amount of money to buy bitter tomatoes and okra to put in the rice despite the fact that nobody likes better tomatoes are okra. I asked why do you waste so much money on the vegetables that nobody eats? they told me because we don't want anyone to think we are poor. Africans are all about face and presentation to the point of self ruin. we're talking about people for whom buying a couple vegetables is a huge impact on their bottom line but they still do it. saving money is basically impossible. I'm convinced they have no concept of the future aside from a vague idea that tomorrow will come. cause and effect seem to have no meaning. people who plan well save money and invested we're not lauded or emulated just dismissed as flukes are having received the blessings of allah. actually Africans probably took to Islam like flies to shit because in Islam everything flows directly from God it is a religion that gives people permission to believe that everything is out of their hands which they believe anyway.
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