the (Un)expected Quietness of an African Pre-Christmas
Before December arrived, the author heard from multiple sources of the supposed madness of a lengthy Christmas season in this piece of African outback. There will be non-stop Christmas music blasting from every home from December to February, they said. All the bus tickets will be much more expensive because everyone will be traveling home, they said. And the whole country will all the sudden become a much more festive place, they said. Exaggeration, without a doubt, but even taken with a grain of salt, such words can be credited for heightened excitements in some boredom.