How Can I Describe This

There is a term that is thrown around between the NGOs and other foreign aid workers. It is used to describe aspects, more often than not of a ridiculous nature, of this place that have no correlation or equal to any place we call home. This term would do well to some up some things like: Seeing 6 men pilled on one bike riding down the road, or a car with its roof packings being larger that the car it’s self. Seeing a man with a bike riding on the back of another bike. When your riding on the back of an okata reaching in to your pocket to pull out a few coins to throw on the ground and you take a moment to ask yourself how it is that 4 small boys with 5 sticks can set up a toll and make you pay to drive on “their” road. Now I would like to make it clear that Africa, at it’s core, is just like any where else it the world, and it’s people, at their core, are the same as us. That said there are some things distinguishably different, and when faced with these situations that give you pause in your day there is only on thing to say…T.I.A.