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In Kenya when you go for nyama choma there are no napkins but you wash your hands before eating out of your shared bowl.

The sinks are outside by the tables.

If you don't wash your hands people won't eat with you.

The idea that Africa is less hygienic than the West is as much BS as be idea that Africa is more corrupt than the west.


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  1. ed on March 22, 2011 9:19 am

    Africa is much less hygienic than the west. It is you that are full of BS. Eating with your hands out of a shared bowl? That is disgusting. Never mind their barbaric, unhygienic sexual practices that spread aids like wildfire.

  2. Nathan on March 22, 2011 2:55 pm

    Being married to an African and having spent much time there, I completely disagree. Ever watch someone die of Cholera? It probably wasn’t in the U.S. I hope you’re not a dentist. I can attest to the other comment by Ed. The only time I have seen a couple having sexual intercourse in public was in Africa. No, he wasn’t wearing a condom. I asked one of the approx. twenty people watching to check.

  3. marion d.s. dreyfus on March 22, 2011 10:04 pm

    Yet there is much more disease spread in Africa than in the advanced West.
    I lived among the people in China, and the ‘restaurants’ in the villages/towns/cities in which I lived were hardly clinically sterile–yet I never got ill once, despite eating in places where animals (cats, dogs, occasionally chickens, goats) roamed, and the ‘chairs’ and tables and overall ambience was something no normal New Yorker would deign to eat in. I saw healthy people eating there, and figured if they were ok, so would I be. It made no sense to be crazy-germaphobic.

  4. Curmudgeon 1341 on March 23, 2011 9:32 am

    March 23 (Bloomberg) — Cholera, a bacterial infection that spreads through contaminated water and food, killed 87 people in Cameroon since January, according to the country’s public health minister, Andre Mama Fouda.

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