Originally Posted by: chucklivesoninmyhearthey KD,ive heard some parts of africa are brutal(like you should carry a gun with you at all times kind of bad).Is that true?I know the continent is huge,but still.Whats the commerce like?Are there lots of native africans and villages?...
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Now, if there's a civli war going on, what do you expect to happen? In places like somali, you carry a gun if you live there. Otherwise if you're visiting, you're probably gonna need escort in the form of a pick up truck loaded with AK47'ned militias, with one of those sub machine guns mounted at the back. In places like Kenya, most places no one has ever seen a small firearm, with most policemen carrying G3's with them. In some parts of Kenya, you need armed police escort (in the North Eastern province) in view of the threat of some originally separatist guerillas called "Shifta's". Most places where there's no war going on are cool, but those with wars are not. Then of course, like in all urban areas, there's the uber rich suburbs, where the diplomats and such like live, on the one hand, and the uber seedy slums on the other hand. The ghettos, so to speak. Tho I have to say, when I see an American "ghetto" in a movie, and I see dudes driving and watching TV, I'm like, some people should do a bit of travelling before they call their hood a ghetto, assuming the word implies an area of extreme poverty and hardship and crime and what have you.