AFRICAN MINDSET May 29, 2008
Posted by frostygirl in News.trackback
Somalian people who have been victims of xenophobic attacks in South Africa have now given me another great opportunity to show non-Africans how strange the African mindset can be.
Somalians in a refugee facility in South Africa have refused aid from the South African government and will only accept aid from United Nations. When South African aid workers arrived at their facility with clothes, food, medicine, etc they were turned away and sent back from where they came from with the goods they brought with them.
Now imagine, you are in dire straights and your children are suffering, people go through a lot of effort to obtain aid for you, even delivers it to your doorstep for free and what do you do? You chase them away! Beyond understanding!
To make matters worse, there are other nationalities in the same facility crying out for food, blankets, clothing, medicine, etc and the Somalians put up blockades to stop help arriving for them without their permission so everyone in that facility receives no aid unless it comes from the UN. Makes no sense!
I have lived in Africa all my life and I can now say I don’t understand this at all.
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