World shalanga day | Folakemi Odoaje

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How can one explain a grown man peeing in the open with total disregard to people around him? I have seeing a grown man defecating same way at a Lagos beach with little left for imagination and a few minutes later brought some gigantic prawns for sale – all I could imagine was fresh poop in the guts of those prawns – I prefer not to have preconceived image of what might be so I declined.

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Culture is a messy business, says new leader of the African Studies Center

….Yet misconceptions about Africa abound, beginning with ideas about its uniformity. His list of enduring misconceptions about Africa? “That it’s all the same country; that everyone is poor and starving; that all governments are corrupt; that all African cultures are all small-scale, communal and, basically, not us — a very primitivist vision of the continent.”
http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/article/159410

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