Mar 18 2011 Africa: the "city fish" shampoo

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  The answer, like everything else in the economy, is based on the relationship I have, would and could, universal law that divides the rest essentials. Much of Angola's population does not use toilet paper, expensive and imported article, making toilet paper is a product of "Luxury" priced for its economy would be equivalent to cleanse the back (pardon me) the Encyclopedia Espasa-Calpe.

There are several urban legends that say the world's most expensive cities are Tokyo, London or Oslo, Luanda's, Angola's capital, o Ndjamena, Chad's capital. They also say international economic studies. Just put the world's most expensive city in Google and surprise when jumps appear in the impoverished African cities.

Why? The answer, like everything else in the economy, is based on the relationship I have, would and could, universal law that divides the rest essentials. Much of Angola's population does not use toilet paper, expensive and imported article, lo que hace que el papel higiénico sea un producto de «lujo» cuyo precio para su economía sería el equivalente a limpiarnos el trasero (pardon me) the Encyclopedia Espasa-Calpe. (It must be difficult feeling to go to the bathroom as if they pay the entrance to the Milan opera).

Last Wednesday I experienced a funny and illuminating story. I went down to watch the game of Real Madrid and Lyon at a bar near home. Was only, perfect, away from the large colony of friends culé Cape Town to which every time I look I see them face a 5-0 ... and I hope (a face 5-0, for those who do not know, one side is sure that when asked the beers in the bars on game days is going to ask another round. Mine, eg, to strength in recent years slaps, is more like "if we like the third I make up an ailment and I go home to read the biography of Mandela).

How many possibilities there are to see in a lost and empty bar Cape Town Real Madrid match-Lyon with one company for a type of Barcelona and French? Which has, should not be many, I actually did them.

In order, that rinsing with that calm my fears alone, with my whiskey&coke in hand, I asked the waiter to put the match. At that time two guys come planted in front of the screen. I ask in English if they can be removed and I answered with an Englishman who seems too understandable "of course". Then, sit relatively close, I see you shake with excitement when they attack those who are not white, and perceive that their English is as understandable as to hear "host, is that very bad ", in perfect Castilian. How many possibilities there are to see in a lost and empty bar Cape Town Real Madrid match-Lyon with one company for a type of Barcelona and French, Lyon was born in the same, living in the beautiful Barcelona? Which has, should not be many, I actually did them.

The issue is that the types, they were pretty nice, and I ended up sharing the evening, engaged in selling snuff paper rolling across Africa. They represent a Spanish company and travel, I explained, South Africa, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Sierra Leone ... selling cigarette paper. “En Nigeria, it is a market of more than 100 million, Liab the snuff was before with leaves or newspaper ", tell me the guy from Barcelona. "We now have the problem that the Chinese copy our role and we are taking market" (the colonization of China in Africa is overwhelming).

When I said goodbye to them, faced 3-0 (three whiskeys), came home thinking I've found many people in Namibia, Botswana, Zambia ... they told me similar stories. People who see an Africa where Dorado fend; Bazaar new opportunities for inventors removed bored fortune shine on the shoes in the tail of broken dreams. Unfortunately, there is always something missing in Africa. As one great song by Joaquin Sabina, Fish City, "El Dorado was a shampoo"; the same for the entire afternoon waiting for children at the door of my hotel in Livingstone, Zimbabwe.