I spent three months traveling in Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria, Kenya, and Tanzania. Here are 12 of the biggest culture clashes I encountered in Africa.
As a left-handed person, I found this difficult to get used to. While I'm used to greeting and shaking hands with my right, it was very strange to try eating with my right hand. That said, locals in any country tend to give plenty of leeway to foreigners for mucking up cultural norms.A man wheels a power generator on a wheel barrow in front of a petrol display board reflecting the new petrol price in Abuja, Nigeria May 12, 2016.in Nigeria.
While visiting Business Insider's Lagos office in January, there was a power outage followed by the office building's generator breaking. With a couple hours left in the workday, some employees started heading home. Before you enter any public building, hotel, bar, restaurant, or shopping complex in both Lagos and Nairobi, you will have to go through a security check akin to what one might experience at an airport in the US.
Considering the issues with terrorism that both Nigeria and Kenya regularly experience, the tight security is understandable. Sometimes it is not enough.
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