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Anon Explains Africa

4chan Posts about Africa: A Compilation Thread 🧵 Image
Africanisation Image
The Downtown Johannesburg Tour Image
History of Rhodesia Image
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Anon meets an African who Learns to Farm Image
The South African Energy Crisis Image
Anon’s Grandfather Denies the Rwandan Genocide Image
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The Colonial Authorities try to Reduce Population Growth Image
Zimbabwean Soldiers don’t know what Sights on Rifles are for Image
African Languages | Not 4Chan - at amren.com/news/2017/10/m… Image
The Congolese Wars and Rwandan Genocides ImageImageImageImage
How Europeans Conquered Africa Image
Old Somalian Salutes Il Duce Image
Contracting in the Central African Republic Image
Deployment in Sierra Leone Image
South African Mercenary Neall Ellis takes down an African Rebel Army out of Spite Image
African Explains Bushmeat and Ebola Image
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African Social Obligations: city-journal.org/article/after-…

Two Belgians Drive Across the Congo: expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/…

The African Conception of Time: shantanoo-desai.github.io/posts/books/th…

On Having to Wait for Things to Happen in Africa: medium.com/the-mission/af…
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Empire of Dust: Chinese Contractors in the Congo attempt to work with Locals to try to build a Road:

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Apr 1
With America’s hispanicised future now increasingly ‘locked-in’ it’s possible that even if the US does continue with a space programme that that space exploration might also become increasingly hispanicised too. Not impossible the moon bases of 2076 look something like this Image
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Mar 31
SHOPPING MALLS AS THE BEST PLACE TO MEET ARAB WOMEN 🇰🇼

Concept of shopping malls as ‘third spaces’ in the Arab world and especially the Gulf sounds funny but makes sense when you think about it. Gulf countries often get called giant shopping malls in the desert (which they sort of are) but at same time the mall is also a more important social institution than you might first think. Major example: under their brand of conservative Islam where else are you supposed to meet people of the opposite gender?

Was in a mall in Kuwait with an Arab friend. You would see packs of young people - not unusual or weird anywhere in the world of course but a lot were sort of slouching against walls, just watching people walk past. Monitoring milling. Friend told me to look up - there was a group of young men leaning on the balcony of the floor above hunched together grasping sugary milkshakes and scanning the floors below, pointing and murmuring to each other. This was a very common sight he said. Difficult to meet young women in any capacity outside of very socially mediated spaces so all the young men would come to shopping malls to leer. There are social spaces like ‘diwanayahs’ or ‘majlis’ were people could meet and talk, play FIFA together etc in these countries but these are mostly sex-segregated

Two hijabed-up girls walked past and the men stared down at them, murmuring to each other again with a flash of excitement on their faces. Friend claimed that sometimes these girls would come to these shopping malls knowing that the boys would be there waiting for them and then deliberately walk around arm-in-arm in a flirty way to ‘tease them’. Whole set-up was a kind of parlour game where the coquettish hijabis had some plausible deniability, which of course made the young men go mad. Was thrilling to be in these spaces with women without any oversight, doubly so if ‘they clearly wanted it’

Asked if anything ever came of it, if any of the guys any got any action out of it. He said it did happen but the culture was a bit reserved about that so for some of the younger guys especially it was months of giggly “no I’m too modest we can’t do anything like that oh my god you’re so naughty” even if they did get a bit of hand-holding out of it. There was some ‘pre-martial’ shagging going on but it was important generally that other people didn’t find out, same as with eg drinking alcohol

Said a lot of young men must be sexually frustrated. He said they were. Asked if it was true that they would sometimes hump each other as a release, he said it did happen but it wasn’t regarded as gay because it was just a release. Some older young men would go to migrant worker prostitutes too now. Seems to be important for healthy gender relations the ‘third space’ malls exist at the very leastImage
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There’s emerging kinds of ‘spaces’ you see in the most yookayified areas of Britain, in cities like Birmingham especially, places like the ‘executive games lounge’ or the ‘dessert parlour’ which really only exist in the way they do because they represent Muslims trying to navigate the kinds of social norms they have in public spaces. Can take your friends, maybe even a woman there with a modicum of extra privacy but there’s some plausible deniability about what the function of the place is sociallyImage
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Mar 31
Good choice to place the presidential library in Miami. Miami may not be the spiritual capital of the old heritage America but it will be the spiritual capital of the new lusotropical America. Trump really the inaugural president for a new era in American history Miami represents Image
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Mar 30
Number of Kantian scholars killed in Iranian air strikes suggests real reason for conflict is Trump’s strong dislike of Kant. Trump clearly regards US missiles as a direct refutation of Kant’s critique of pure reason and the distinction between phenomena and the thing-in-itself Image
What did you think completing the system of German Idealism meant? Essays? Vibes? Hegel couldn’t do it. Schelling couldn’t do it. Fichte couldn’t do it. Reinhold couldn’t do it. Maimon couldn’t do it. Hormuz shutdown is pure dialectics
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Mar 29
LESOTHO - FINAL FANTASY SKY KINGDOM 🇱🇸

Here is genuine travel advice: Africa does not have the best food or nightlife or the most attractive women but it does have (I think) almost always the most memorable travel experiences, mostly because it is so relatively dysfunctional and unknown. Just trying to do things, trying to travel somewhere is an odyssey. Then the environments and people too, it’s very unmediated - you’re dumped in the deep end from the get-go. If you want a trip you won’t forget pick an African country or two, rent a car and then just drive between four or five destinations. It is difficult not to have an ‘adventure’

Not suggesting everywhere on the dark continent is secretly Wakanda, actually it’s mostly the opposite a lot of it is a ‘shithole’ so-called. What Africa does have though is a kind of untouched-ness. This is maybe a type of orientalism - the equivalent term for Africa (used by the Congolese writer Valentin Mudimbe) would be ‘Africanism’ - but it’s difficult to otherwise describe the appeal. If you look at a Jean-Léon Gérôme painting and think “that looks exotic” it’s like that but for Africa; shantytowns, ‘heart of darkness vibezzz’, Kagame’s new Rwanda and all. Not a value comment on the culture(s), just its existing as a totally different place and aesthetic to explore

Very underrated country in this way is the mountain near-ethnostate Lesotho. Not a developed country but it is a very Final Fantasy country that hits a lot of the ‘Africanism’ tropes in the best kind of way. Effect is something like what if we did a version of Nepal or Bhutan or Tibet but it’s in Africa? I’m not going to say Lesotho has as sophisticated a culture as those places but what you do get there is distinct in same way

The entire state is mountainous - it even snows in the winter - so the environment obviously produces a different kind of country. Also to this, the state formed as refugees fleeing lowlander Nguni groups during the Mfecane (ie the Zulu expansion and its consequences, many dead). Its cities, like its capital Maseru, are basically just rows of corrugated huts with traditional huts peppered in sorry to say (I don’t want to insult Sotho readers too much I like the Sotho) - but against the backdrop of the higher altitude landscape and the aesthetic uniqueness you will really not see anywhere else like it in the world. Sorry for trivialised description but you play a game and you arrive in a fantasy ramshackle frontier town full of dwarves wearing bicornes, effect is like this. There’s a certain appeal despite the squalor

The Sotho, Lesotho’s main ethnic group, are some of the most Final Fantasy Africans on the continent. They have a very Final Fantasy look in their traditional Mokorotlo straw hat and Basotho blanket. The Mokorotlo hat looks like a wizard or mage’s hat and the blanket is worn as a sort of cloak, decorated in bold patterns and colours. You often see men herding livestock dressed like this on the mountainsides, sometimes they combine it with a cane and wellington boots, ride around on horses. It’s very commonplace too, not a forced dying tradition

The Sotho also have a lot of Final Fantasy dialogue. Eg had driver who when asked about life in Lesotho would talk about male initiation rites and mystery cults

“Eh when you are becoming a man, you must go into the mountains and live on your own. And then you must learn the ways of the Sotho people. Eh and you must study the secret knowledge the elders pass onto you. Eh and you must do this, and then you must return and offer the father of a woman ten head of sheep or goat. So that he will accept your offer of marriage. And then you will become a man”

“What is the secret knowledge you learn?”

“Eh we are sworn to a vow of secrecy, me I cannot tell you this”

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In Maseru Sotho friend says let’s go to a ‘nice bar’. Arrive at bar it’s a corrugated iron roof large shack, outside on the dusty forecourt people have started fires in rusty old barrels. Go inside, they are holding big karaoke night singing songs from eg Westlife and Spice Girls
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Thais will hate it but Thailand like Bali and the UAE can become one of first proper post-national states; what equal opportunity ‘no borders for decent human capital’ taken to its logical conclusion looks like ie legacy national culture and a large non-citizen ‘expat’ population Image
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Very possible to get a country to the level of Basically Fine like Thailand or… now El Salvador. Nothing wrong with such places. But they often have hard cap on how broadly ‘innovative’ they can be with the populations they have. My view is if traditional nation states are now totally impossible in the age of the airplane there is nothing too egregious about these places importing small western migrant populations to make migrant distributions a bit more fair
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