"I might even grow accustomed to the storm of car horns and vendors. Can there be anywhere else in the world that is such an assault on the senses? Those who know the country though just go about their business. But nothing can prepare the uninitiated for this riot of noise and color - the heat, the motion, the perpetual teeming crowds...Initially, you're overwhelmed, but gradually you realize it's like a wave: resist, and you'll be knocked over; dive into it, and you'll swim out the other side. This is a new and different world. The challenge is to cope with it, and not just cope, but thrive."
Evelyn in "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," a brilliant movie I just watched on my flight from Entebbe to London. Even if it's about India, I think it applies to Africa as well.
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