James Laughlin describes traveling across Africa and noticing a stark shift in safety and behavior north of the equator. He observes that northern regions feel more aggressive and weapon-heavy, while southern areas seem subtler about power. He's exploring these differences in a book called Running Africa.
I mean, there were three events, all happened in northern Ethiopia, unfortunately. So I want to be clear. You know, I had. We had no problems whatsoever till I got north of Nairobi. So everything from Cape Town to the equator, you're fine. Once you hit that equator, the world changes a bit. I don't know why fully. And I'm really. In the book that I'm writing, Running Africa, I'm trying to analyze some. What is it that makes the northern part of Africa so macho and so bristling with weapons and aggression and binary thinking about how to fix problems. And why south of the equator does it seem there's a subtler view to controlling power? There's a subtler view to people's human behavior.
