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Date: 7/28/00 12:54:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time<BR>
From: [log in to unmask] (FLAVIA MWOMBELA)<BR>
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</FONT><FONT SIZE=3 PTSIZE=10>Hey what do you think of this?<BR>
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>From: June Warioba <[log in to unmask]><BR>
>To: Danny Kiondo <[log in to unmask]>, Stacey Tucker <[log in to unmask]><BR>
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>Subject: How to tell an African from an African<BR>
>Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 22:57:52 -0700 (PDT)<BR>
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> > >It comes as something of a surprise to many<BR>
> > Africans<BR>
> > >>to discover that all<BR>
> > >>Africans look the same to non-Africans. How do you<BR>
> > >>tell a Nigerian from a<BR>
> > >>Kenyan?, and I am not talking about passports or<BR>
> > >>clothing.<BR>
> > >><BR>
> > >>The easiest way, of course, is the name, for<BR>
> > example<BR>
> > >>Ogunkoye can only be a<BR>
> > >>Nigerian, and Njoroge a Kenyan. And where do the<BR>
> > >>Dunns come from? Freed<BR>
> > >>Slaves--they are surely from Liberia or Sierra<BR>
> > >>Leone.<BR>
> > >><BR>
> > >>Surely everybody knows that the loud and cocky<BR>
> > ones<BR>
> > >>are the West Africans;<BR>
> > >>the brooding ones and sly ones are the North and<BR>
> > >>South Africans; the East<BR>
> > >>Africans always say yes even when they disagree<BR>
> > >>violently. If you want to be<BR>
> > >>more specific:<BR>
> > >>Cameroonians will borrow money to buy Champagne<BR>
> > >>whilst the Ghanaians think<BR>
> > >>they invented politics.<BR>
> > >>The Congolese think they have the best music and<BR>
> > the<BR>
> > >>best dancers. The<BR>
> > >>Nigerians have a "THING" about clothes, and the<BR>
> > >>Ethiopians think they have<BR>
> > >>the most beautiful women on God's earth.<BR>
> > >>Moroccans think they're French, and so do<BR>
> > >>Burkinabes.<BR>
> > >>Algerians hate the French.<BR>
> > >>Sierra Leonians smile profusely.<BR>
> > >>Liberians can't get over America.<BR>
> > >><BR>
> > >>All East and South African countries have the same<BR>
> > >>national anthem, but the<BR>
> > >>South Africans sing it the best.<BR>
> > >>The South Africans have no hair; the Zambians and<BR>
> > >>Kenyans have prominent<BR>
> > >>foreheads.<BR>
> > >><BR>
> > >>The West Africans have short memories and never<BR>
> > >>learn from their mistakes;<BR>
> > >>the concept of order and discipline must have been<BR>
> > >>invented in East Africa;<BR>
> > >>the words don't exist in West Africa, especially<BR>
> > in<BR>
> > >>Nigeria.<BR>
> > >><BR>
> > >>When a cabinet minister is caught in a corruption<BR>
> > >>scandal, he commits<BR>
> > >>suicide in Southern Africa; in West Africa he's<BR>
> > >>promoted after the<BR>
> > >>next coup d'etat.<BR>
> > >><BR>
> > >>In athletics, the divisions are easy: from 800m to<BR>
> > >>the marathon the East<BR>
> > >>Africans hold sway; the West Africans are only<BR>
> > good<BR>
> > >>at the sprints.<BR>
> > >>South Africans can only sing. But when it comes<BR>
> > to<BR>
> > >>football, the North and<BR>
> > >>West Africans dominate the lesser-skilled East and<BR>
> > >>South<BR>
> > >>Africans.<BR>
> > >><BR>
> > >>IT'S GOT TO BE SOMETHING IN THE<BR>
> > >>WATER................................. BUT<BR>
> > >>WHEN IT<BR>
> > >>COMES TO SKIN COLOUR, SURELY ALL AFRICANS ARE<BR>
> > >>BLACK.<BR>
> > >>ALL BLACK???<BR>
> > >>"If you think EDUCATION is expensive, try<BR>
> > >>IGNORANCE"<BR>
> > >><BR>
> > >><BR>
> > ><BR>
> ><BR>
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