Africans and Queuing
I have meant to write about this for a long time and for some reasons, I kept finding better and more interesting topics. However with my latest argument about queuing, I find myself urgently compelled to put my thoughts on paper about this subject. I have travelled a bit here and there, but I have not found any other place where people have no respect for a queue like it is on the beautiful continent. Not only at the market, but also in bars, banks, airports and traffic, Africans find it very hard to line up and patiently wait for their turn. I have seen this and some times, I have been the direct victim of queue jumpers in Kampala, Nairobi, Accra, Lagos and Lusaka. To the contrary I have not seen any body jumping a queue in all the other countries I have visited outside Africa. So my question is; what is it that makes Africans so antipathetic to queuing? Is it simply the way we are brought up or just a desire to have commotion and mayhem in every thing we do. I come from a ve...