{"id":4542,"date":"2015-05-17T09:02:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T14:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thezman.com\/wordpress\/?p=4542"},"modified":"2021-07-11T14:07:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T19:07:46","slug":"a-quick-follow-up-on-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thezman.com\/wordpress\/?p=4542","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Follow Up On Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is the nature of Westerners to doubt just how quickly a place like Africa can become a savage nightmare. After all, even the worst calamities in Europe have not set off an end-of-times zombie apocalypse. Two world wars in which tens of millions were killed and whole cities demolished did not tip the Continent into barbarism.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to think that from the comfort of a high smart fraction society. In societies with tiny smart fractions and enormous numbers of violent stupid people, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3084326\/Nigerian-restaurant-shut-serving-HUMAN-flesh-bags-containing-human-heads-bleeding.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">things can turn quickly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>A Nigerian restaurant has reportedly been shut down for cooking human flesh and serving it to customers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The police were tipped off by locals who suspected something horrific was taking place inside the kitchen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>They raided the hotel restaurant to discover human heads which were still dripping with blood in plastic bags.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>A local priest who ate at the restaurant &#8211; in the south-eastern province of Anambra &#8211; was alarmed at the price of meals there, let alone where the meat came from,<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/swahili\/habari\/2015\/05\/150513_human_meat_nigeria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BBC Swahili <\/a>reported.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>He was presented with a bill of 700 Naira &#8211; around \u00a32.20 &#8211; when the daily wage for tens of millions of Nigerians is approximately 60p.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The priest said:\u00a0&#8216;The attendant noticed my reaction and told me it was the small piece of meat I had eaten that made the bill scale that high.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>&#8216;I did not know I had been served with human meat, and that it was that expensive.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The police also found a terrifying arsenal of weapons which included grenades when they raided the restaurant. Ten people were arrested in connection to the crimes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>One resident said: &#8216;I am not surprised at the shocking revelation&#8230; Every time I went to the market, I observed strange activities going on in the hotel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>&#8216;People who were never cleanly dressed and who looked a bit strange made their way in and out of the hotel, making me very suspicious of their activities.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In addition to the occasional trips to the witch doctor to address the effects of cannibalism or bat eating, these are people who are concerned about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2294002\/Reports-penis-snatching-rise-remote-village-Central-Africa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">penis snatching<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Africa is not a place that will muster a well-organized response to their spiraling fertility rate and growing food shortage.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the nature of Westerners to doubt just how quickly a place like Africa can become a savage nightmare. 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