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“Western individualism contends that this social life is gained at the expense of the individual”

“And then illiterate manake, who had never read a newspaper or seen television or traveled beyond the next village, told Jane all about the things he’d seen in Paris and New York.”
“It’s some kind of astral travel,”

“We saw modern universities, but invisible to us was the disease that plagues graduates who postpone marriage while getting an education—and substitute casual sex and prostitution. AIDS strikes harvest at the educated classes. Ten physicians graduate from medical school, and within a year three of them are dead,”
-Malawi

Julius Nyerere Is my new idol.
Previous president of Tanzania.
Prioritized ujamaa, African socialism, whereby capitalism is not relevant, only familyhood, meaning a focus on oral mediation and not changing the traditional agriculture system.
He made his country literate in a decade. Extended life expectancy by 20 years.
Destroyed corruption and lived modestly. And Made the national language Swahili, not English.

“The state is a make enterprise serving male interests,”

“Where can democracy come from when all the officials are corrupt and all the people poor and uneducated?”

Muggelton: “don’t tell me you don’t have to lock your doors here. Everyone knows these African blokes will help themselves to anything that isn’t nailed down.”
Alf: “true enough, but they’re used to sharing. They can’t understand why we should have so much when they have so little. I can’t understand it myself. Can you?”

Patrice Lumumba: the first and only democratically elected leader of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. CIA head Allen Dulles ordered his assassination because he vouched for an end to the economical colony of Europe and America in their country. Eisenhower approved. And the CIA killed him and then dumped him in an unmarked grave.
God bless America

“I could tell you of fifteen cases I’ve seen personally where there was nothing wrong with the patient— nothing modern science could find— yet the patient died. Why? Because the medicine man had said he would. The spell is cast. The patient wastes away, and we modern doctors can’t do a thing.”