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I would say it has to be the environment. You see a traditional masaai for instance will grow up surrounded by lions and get used to them with nothing to fear. You try to put @kiash or his white friends under the same environment!

These rides have been known to get stuck in the air, or some folks have fallen to their deaths so there is every reason to fear.

PS: I would like to know where that ride is located. I don't even think Disney has such.

Firstly, I can understand the fear that's gripping 'me' as an 'African'. The things I have heard and read, seen done, about Africa. But then the question of what one must make for himself is and has always been open. Regardless of lessons.

Freedom entails choice. To do or not to do. If you look at the history of Man you'll find a balance of goodness in all cultures.

I got a clearer view of the African by reading H.M Stanley's 'Through the dark continent'. Clash of values, and similarity in essence.

Vasco da Gama used a Ptolemaic Atlas. Was/is Ptolemy an African?

What's fear? How do humans become fearful? Can one learn not to fear? Can an African love life, himself, 'others', equally? That, ironically, is all that matters. It's the greatest one can do. Has the African done this?

Stanley says it over and over, the Africans were mostly so eager for brotherhood. Even when they marveled at the 'white Man'.

He(Livingstone) narrates an encounter with the people of 'Uhyeya' "a tribe who are decidedly lower in humanity than their 'ingenious' neighbors." People who ate all flesh except that of dogs. People who were rumored to be cannibals. Yet these people "were admirable for their readiness with which they supplied all our wants, voluntarily offering themselves, as guides to Uvinza, the next country we had to traverse."

Africans had all they needed. Even the most 'primitive'.

The Mayan Calender is still alive, it's going deep into the 'future'. Or the wisdom of the 'Aborigines'. So much Afrikana!

Africans are fearless when it matters not just for kicks.

Check out my boys from narok..

keep telling yourself that! tunaogopa vitu innocuous kama maji! those Maasai men live this thing through out - ni kama wewe kuelewa ng'ombe if you are a farmer but how easy would it be for those maasai men to dip their toes into some bit of discomfort? We have the right stuff but we have been raised to fear everything including politics. Siku za moi made most of us fear public criticism of garment. The cause of the fear is gone but we have institutionalised it - kama zile monkeys on the other thread.

Which of these requires courage; to gain the trust of lions, or to kill them? What makes an act fearless?

Chief wazungus have had these types of rides since the 1800s throwing an african who has only seen there rides on tv, whose father and grandfather have never even imagined such a thing and comparing his reaction to a mzungus reaction is not comparing like for like.