Inside/Outside.

Note: Azungu is a term used for foreigners in most of Southern Africa.

Azungus are very strange.  They spend all day in their house.  What are they doing in there?  Here in Africa a house is for storing things in, or sleeping in during the winter.  But everything else is done outside.  Did you  know that Azungus actually eat inside their house?  And they relieve themselves and even take a bath inside the house.  Such practices are bizarre and unsanitary to Africans.  This makes us wonder if they are doing secret things in there.

Another thing that is strange is that their houses are gigantic.  Most Africans build a group of small buildings in their yard.  One is for the husband and wife and small children.  Another is for the teenage boys.  Another might be for storing grain or other things.  But the Azungus build one gigantic building for everything: everyone lives together inside, sleeps inside, even socializes inside.  Maybe this is a practice that has been imported from the cold parts of the world where for several months of the year it is dark and the ground is frozen.  Here in Africa it is almost never too cold to go outside and how are you supposed to socialize with your neighbors if you’re hiding in your house?