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		<title>An African&#8217;s travel advisory to the continent</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Self Editor&#8217;s Note: Sometimes Our Man in America receives calls from Americans seeking advice on travel to the motherland.  “I was checking the State Department&#8217;s website and they say there are a lot of kidnappings. What&#8217;s your take?” Yes, there is violence. A lot of savagery crime. They kidnap you and ask for a $5-million ransom – Zimbabwean dollars, that is. That’s about $2 American. Seems like nothing but in a continent where most people live on less than a dollar a day? And here is the mistake most Americans make: they say, “Jesus Christ, you had me scared for a minute there, Buki. Here is $20. Back in America I make that in an hour.” “Are you fucking with us, you crazy American? What the heck are we going to do with American money? We want the money in Zimbabwean dollars?” So you head to the foreign exchange window at the Kenyan bank – under the watchful eye of Buki and his thugs, of course &#8212; and walk out with a truckload (literary) of money. “If anyone asks, you tell them you are a wealthy Zimbabwean farmer and we are your hands,” Buki says, as his thugs load the [...]]]></description>
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