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5mo ago

Total burn on West Africa!

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"I wanna go to the ocean but I really hate those fuckers in Sierra Leone, Libera, Côte D'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, and Benin."
- I'm also slightly bothered that the Niger River only goes through a tiny sliver of Niger.
  I kind of feel like they shouldn't claim the name. Maybe trade names with Nigeria. It will probably be some pretty easy paperwork alterations. You just take away their A.
  
  Central African Republic is also not quite centered.

"I'm like 20 minutes away"
[ four months later ]
"I'm a three week boat ride away."

Funny how they call it Africa's third longest river instead of calling it by its name.
- Honestly off the top of my head I wouldn't know that the Niger is Africa's third longest river, so I'm glad they call it that, since it makes the whole story more interesting than just an arbitrary river doing a weird thing.
  Besides.. it gives it that clickbatey touch of " oooh, i wonder what's tge third longest river in africa! Better pause and check the article!"
  
  Yeah, I know the Nile and the Congo, but the Niger just ain't got enough colonialist adventure stories about traveling up it ala Stanley and Livingstone. Which makes sense, because as we can see you'll just be disappointed when you find the source of the Niger.
- They should name it "Africa's second longest river" just for the lols.
  And this is Africa's second longest river, the third longest river in Africa.
- It's name is probably caught be most automatic word filters, being one letter off from a racial slur.
- Maybe to avoid confusing it with the country.

Seems like Guinea could set up some sort of diversion to the sea within their own territory and then hold all the water hostage over the other countries.
You know, if they were run by Nestle or something.
- It's always wise to pick a fight with 6 guys at once, especially when one of those guys is 4 times your size.
  
  6 dudes with no water for a week would be pretty easy to take on.
- Maybe they already did just to screw with Sierra Leone?
- Cote D'Ivoire be like, "fuck you, we got a bunch of rivers and a bigass lake."
  But in French.

It really didn't want to go to Sierra Leone.
- They know what they did.

I don't get it
- It starts fairly close to the sea but takes an enormous detour to get there.
  (Yeah I know that the geography probably doesn't allow the river to go anywhere else. It's a joke.)

- West Africa is widely celebrated for their stable, benevolent, progressive governments, and they are especially tolerant of LGBTQ people and refugees from different cultures.

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