Culture once sang this about babylon in a song, that they come with a cocoa full basket and tell you that they have mountains of it, but when you go there you find only a pile of shit. I don't remember the exact words or what song it is from, but it went something like that.
As Fikre Jahnhoi said,
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jus dont let dat be an excuse for yuh, if yuh art an African dat is
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Yes I, if the I must go there then go there, don't let a hard life be your reason to turn back. Just make sure to go there with reality in your mind. Learn of the place you are going from people that live there or have lived there, and see the different perspectives. But don't pay too much attention to people that have just visited for a time, even if it was for one or two years(or until they ran out of money and jumped on their return ticket). It is easy to live most places if you are living off or at least supplemented with money you have brought with you. Only the people who have lived long enough to have to earn their living will be able to give a perspective with more worth.
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