[“Africa wins again is a favorite phrase used by Kim Du Toit, an expatriate of South Africa, who came to America in the mid 80’s when he saw his homeland sliding from bad to worse and uses the aforementioned term when something in Africa happens to further slide the continent into barbarism. "] -blog
["In West Africa", he used to say, "everything sometimes conspires to defeat you. If you are a foreign correspondent like me, you go through hell... even if you don't actually die but come close to losing your mind, you have reconfirmed a notion that's been knocking around the west coast of Africa for at least a century called the WAWA syndrome... You cry deep within your soul because WEST AFRICA WINS AGAIN!"] -bnet.com
["Old Africa hands are painfully familiar with the phenomenon known as "Wawa." It stands for West Africa Wins Again, and summarizes the frustrating inability to mesh modern methods and ancient habits."] -Time magazine
["This was what we thought - but in Africa counts: AWA = Africa wins again.Whatever you organize - it goes wrong. A sentence from the writer Wilbur Smith"] -Dentistry missonaries
Friday, March 28, 2008
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