Life In Africa Is Not That Hard! "Extreme Inquality", Is What Makes The Sun In That Part Of The World So "Oven-Hot"!
Is Life In Africa Really That Hard?
Life in Africa is not that hard! Oh it is; but maybe not that bad! Not everyone is poor in Africa!
Don’t be mistaken! When you talk of "rich Africans", they can be "stinkingly rich"!
Hahaha, they are usually conspicuous.
Those Vegas cars you see constantly; that purple Porsche, Yellow Hummer or sleek Rolls Royce on Hollywood BLVD, are in Africa; maybe even more than in some developed countries.
For some wealthy tycoons in Africa; just so that they have to live where others (middle-class citizens) live, they sand-fill the lagoons till it becomes land and they build real estates on it.
Perhaps this is it! "Inequality"
Africa has so so so much inequality! The disparity between the rich and the poor is like "the east from the west".
There is no middle-class in Africa!
There are so many simple things that you will do with ease in other nations, that you wouldn't try in several African nations due to shame!
For instance, you can do window-shopping in many nations with ease; walk into a store, let's say a clothing boutique and find out what the prices of clothes are, feed your eyes and visit again at another time when you are ready to buy!
If you did the same in an African boutique for instance, the first reaction you get from the shop attendant is one of "apprehension". Especially, if you aren't sophisticatedly dressed; you will likely be met with roving eyes as the shop attendant ransacks you from head to toe. Hahaha, they will assess the bulge of your pockets, to sniff if holds stacks of money! In extreme cases, they will even try to peep outside the store, to see if you have a car packed outside!
Basically, if you don't fit in, in category of "one with cash", the treatment you get from just their roving eyes will send you packing.
Many times, if you end up trying to purchase some clothes from that store, you will end buying below your choice-standards, because you will dread ransacking their shirt-section, especially when you know that you only have enough money for one shirt.
Well, mostly because they will hurry you up!
You will be treated way way differently, if you borrow someone's car and another's fancy clothes, when visiting that same boutique!
This is where life becomes way more difficult! "The rich get richer and the poor, poorer!"
Normal commodities and infrastructure that should form normal part of even a moderately-urban society is now celebrated as "something of luxury". The shopping malls, golf courses etc are built in proximity to where the wealthy have chosen to reside and the poor stay isolated in a separate faraway region.
They start to experience rural living even within a city!
Thus, it is very possible for an African youth to find himself for the first time in years, in a shopping mall, only for him to hide himself in a corner to shed tears about the state of his life, upon seeing other youths like him, enjoying milkshakes and shopping the malls over.
It is very possible in Africa, for a government official who just completed school-building projects, to blatantly brag about the number of toilets he put in the schools as if toilets are not a normal thing in a school setup!
Well, in Africa even a toilet is/can easily become a thing of luxury! No doubt, no doubt!
There are many youths in Africa urban cities, that have never been in a shopping mall! There are many youths in Africa, that have never entered an escalator.
Now the big question is: "Are there no escalators or shopping malls in Africa?
Well, there are! The thing however is, these common infrastructure have been made a thing of luxury as they aren't readily accessible, for the rich have decided to class themselves as way lofty than the poor and decide what infrastructure should be common!
This extreme inequality in Africa, is what makes life harder than it actually is!
Are there positives?
Well yes, same as there are negatives, there a positives and this will be tackled in our very next post, so be tuned in!
True Story brother, True story!!!!
Many of them in Eko ile.....
Very true story! Only those that have put their fingers in the fire can explain the heat well!
In a land so rich in natural resources and beauty, there is no reason for there to be so much poverty. The causes are many, but the result is the same.
Are you residing in Africa as well! We would like to visit you more often. Thanks for joining here! Following you all the same! You got the picture right!
Amazing piece brother, your article says it all, looking forward to seeing more from you :)