Can confirm having grown up in sub Saharan Africa. They have no written tradition, everything is passed down orally through word of mouth. Which is why different tribes have wildly different interpretations of the same legends, like a game of broken telephone spanning hundreds of years.

They also never invented the wheel.

They also stack bricks beneath their beds because they believe in a demon midget called the Tokolosh who hides under there and waits until you’re asleep.

Learning one of their languages was something else as well. Once you figure out the clicks and lisp sounds, they’re actually basic and primitive to a fault. There aren’t actually enough words in Zulu for example to describe all the things out in the world. Some words therefore have like five different meanings.

Imagine someone telling you, “I think your wife is purple/goose/sandwich/sunbeam/suspension bridge...”

It’s no wonder they’re perpetually confused.

Can confirm having grown up in sub Saharan Africa. They have no written tradition, everything is passed down orally through word of mouth. Which is why different tribes have wildly different interpretations of the same legends, like a game of broken telephone spanning hundreds of years.

They also never invented the wheel.

They also stack bricks beneath their beds because they believe in a demon midget called the Tokolosh who hides under there and waits until you’re asleep.

Learning one of their languages was something else as well. Once you figure out the clicks and lisp sounds, they’re actually basic and primitive to a fault. There aren’t actually enough words in Zulu for example to describe all the things out in the world. Some words mean like five different things.

Imagine someone telling you, “I think your wife is purple/goose/sandwich/sunbeam/suspension bridge...”

It’s no wonder they’re perpetually confused.