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When was this? From mid-2016 to mid-2019 I drove through 35 countries in Africa. I spent a month in Congo (both), Angola, Mali, Sudan, Burundi, Nigeria, etc. e
by grecy 6y ago
When was this?
From mid-2016 to mid-2019 I drove through 35 countries in Africa. I spent a month in Congo (both), Angola, Mali, Sudan, Burundi, Nigeria, etc. etc. [1] I skipped SL and Liberia due to the relentless rain, though I bumped into plenty of other people driving around that went to both.
While it's obviously a stark contrast to Silicon Valley, from what I saw and heard, these days it's not nearly what you're describing.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waQGUz0Z97Y&list=PLNiCe5roBX1gG0CUhHCsad_hv2qZbGzXc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waQGUz0Z97Y&list=PLNiCe5roBX...
- bilbo0s 6y agoIt's not at all what he's describing.
- jFriedensreich 6y agoI arrived 4 weeks after the last case of the ebola epidemic so probably around May 2016. Liberia is (as far as i heard) not really comparable to SL, Nigeria or most other "more civilised" african countries. Even black colleagues from Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Kenia who were deployed at the same time experienced a culture shock (though not quite as extreme), so neither "africa in general" nor the racial background can explain the experience, i think it was really a uniquely weird place on earth. But the country life is probably quite different to Monrovia so there may be a huge gap in experience of people you met that just drove through some nature and village. As i had to work all the time anyways i did not mind the rain too much and it was usually on time like a clockwork and maybe one or 2 hours a day max. As far as my understanding goes, there was no such thing as real tourism, you could not just book a flight to Liberia without family ties or an invitation by an NGO or Government with a reason, but that may have been due to lockdown from ebola.