Yeah well you don ' t really have a problem getting beers and cigarettes to even the most remote of African villages , and I don ' t really know who to blame so that sucks . Marketing vs social marketing . Actually did work for a nonprofit involved in this sort of thing . The people don ' t know why they should use condoms , or they should take BC , or they should sleep under LLINs , or they should purify their water . We have to explain to them that , no , we aren ' t white devils trying to poison you , we ' re here to help this time . speaking generally here since I ofc don ' t know you personally , so try not to take offenseWouldn ' t it be nice if I could go protest in the streets of my homeland without being shot for being white . Can you not get it through your thick skulls that we live in a constant fear of shit getting real in the government ? I could write essays on it but I could be imprisoned for slander if I ever go home , and as a white guy that ' s quite possibly a death sentence . You don ' t understand true fear . You might ' ve encountered it at certain points in your life , but it isn ' t a part of you . Imagine how you probably felt after the US election , maybe you for the first time felt fear that the system would fail and people would take to the streets . That ' s how many of us feel all the time in many different places in Africa , not just in places with volatile governments .