$50 Mangos, Paris, Monopoly

When you’re the only one selling Mangos in town, you can sell them at $50. That is how Hilton Yaoundé was significantly higher than Hilton Paris.(Because, yes, now I take vacation like white people.) Truly, the African child has suffered enough. Not only we gotta chase money in foreign land but we also gotta deal with black tax (AKA never ending lazy village family members’ woe stories). Which is why I am in Paris for 4 days, en train de lover un peu… Pardon ne me demander pas si il est “THE ONE”. Je ne suis pas prophète. On fait ce qu’on peut.

In microeconomics, monopoly pricing occurs when there is no viable competition so the firm has absolute market power. Loved Yaoundé! It is super modern and does not have the intensity of Anglophone West Africa. Lagos was not for me. Everyone was yelling at everyone. It gave somebody’s toxic ex. Yet- there is only one 5 star hotel in Yaoundé. Not sure which dissuades foreign investors more: 94 y/o President who’s banned homosexuality while having a gay daughter OR first lady criminal wigs? Exhibit A below:

The more I travel the more I am grateful for America. It is indeed the ghetto and our food is not food BUT it is a cozy comfortable ghetto. Today, an adorable lil french kid saw me at the patisserie and asked his mom what my headwrap was. The mom answered “c’est jolie, c’est comme une couronne”. (It’s pretty it’s like a crown.) The mom tried but the reality is Europe can never feel like home for a black child. As for Africa/ unless you have decided to rob the population through politics OR have managed to legally make Dangote money OR don’t mind poverty; as much as it pains me to admit, it just ain’t it. So then- nothing can equate America for now. Its melting pot FORCES tolerance and dollars float galore.