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Loading... Lonely Planet : Africa on a Shoestringby Geoff Crowther
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This latest edition covers every country on the African continent. There's useful advice, like visa and border requirements, and food and sleeping suggestions geared toward the needs of the budget traveller. Important information on health and personal safety should not be overlooked by anyone travelling through Africa. No library descriptions found. |
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• Do your research and learn about your African country’s native background - their husbands, wives, friends, and neighbors. Find out about their origins, customs, and languages.
• Be sure to visit the places of interest. Interact with Africans at festivals, bazaars, fairs, and in community groups.
• Engage Africans in conversation - remembering that communication is essential, by being sensitive to their verbal and nonverbal language.
• It’s necessary to treat Africans and their culture with respect, and try not to denigrate them. You’ve to learn more about their country.
• By exploring the nature of the African country’s educational system, meet with support groups, pay attention to similarities, and differences to that of your country.
• Be sensitive to African religious differences. Try to be open-minded about their faith traditions, e.g., Indigenous, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, etc.
• Avoid condescending and derogatory remarks. Focus on your visit by emphasizing what’s important. Take the high road.
• Be accepting of the ways African natives view themselves, and don’t make judgments based on your own background.
• Respect an African culture’s festivities, ceremonies, and rights of passages by accepting its strengths, but not being hung up on weaknesses.
• Be cognizant of African foods and dress. Try understanding how they are part of the mainstream of their culture.
• With the images of natives portrayed in the foreign media, endeavor to know more about the geography of their country, or region. Separate sensationalism from reality.
• As opportunities arise while traveling learn firsthand what other African societies are like. It’s best to learn about their culture in its own environment. ( )