I went to Cameroon in '96 and '97. Had a tracker end up in a "hospital" from a goring from a buff. I went there to check on him and no joke it was a cinder block building that looked like a gas station. The "ward" was a 16 x 12' room with about 8 beds, and there were chickens hopping around in the room. The local MD had cleaned his wounds, sutured him and wrapped him up but gave him no meds because they didn't have any. I carry plenty when I go, so gave him a butt full of Pen G and I.M. Ketoralac and took him back to camp, which was a whole lot cleaner.
I was up-country in Ghana, ~ 2010, on a medical mission trip to a small little country mission hospital. Really primitive with a scarcity of working equipment and sanitation. Natives were pretty fatalistic regarding life, disease, and death. These poor country folk were mostly quiet, and accepting of whatever came their way or you did for them.
My impression was and is with over fifty years of being an independent republic and with abundant natural resources, the masses still lived like five hundred years ago, cooking over an open fire near a very primitive shanty. Accra was an apocalyptic looking city of pollution and filth.
Give some of our demonstrating NFL and other citizens a week or six in Ghana (or other sub-Saharan countries) and I think they'd revise their opinions about the state of existence here. Ignorance is a terrible affliction; make it public and it's terrible stupidity.
