<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, 18 May 2018, 9:04 p.m. Mark Elkins, <<a href="mailto:mje@posix.co.za">mje@posix.co.za</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>I've no idea if you were in Dakar. I was.</p>
<p>One person who was chatted to admitted she was a dress maker and
was there for the free lunch. She otherwise had no interest in the
conference - not even about putting up a web site to sell her
products. She was not the only one. Yes, she was a local African.
I take my hat off to the locals. They dressed well so easily
blended in. Actually, that helped give them away. Most of the
AfriNIC regulars wore T-shirts or more casual clothing and carried
bags or laptops.<br></p></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto">We need to find you something to keep you busy in the next meetings to save you from this food related concerns.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">For goodness sake, Its our custom in Africa to welcome vistors into our homes and functions to feast together with us and share food as a celebration of kinship. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The invention of fire brought humans together but its food that brought us even more closer together as people.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Its rather bazar that of all things, folks we would consider as seniors with full of wisdom from years of experience are wining about people eating food. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I bet to some people even drinking-water would cost someone dying with a thirst some dime.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Money will indeed continue to corrupt us as a people and we will loose our human values.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">No one in Dakar starved even though a few curious visitors from the public who hard of the meeting came around.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Noah</div></div>