how could i possibly forget something that irked me so much?!
who the hell says "TIA"? i'm personally more familiar with "welcome to africa", but either way i find it hard to believe that there are africans who would shorten it.
if ever there was a TIA, i'd put forward that that had to stand for "this is america".
unless i've become so far removed from my origins? has anybody from the continent actually used the contraction before the movie was released? it does sound like something tour guides might make up to please the tourists: "hey, there's this, like, saying that every african knows, from cape town to timbuctoo*, i'm not making this up, we have this unified continental culture."
good grief.
* not the capital of mali. does anybody know what caused the name "timbuctoo" to be so well-known?
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