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Interesting things to know about the towel

How often do you wash your towel? Some people wash once a week, while some, once a year. The towel is a fertile breeding ground for millions of microbes, especially those found on human skin and on the gut.  No wonder the towel is one of the objects that facilitate fecal-oral contamination (literally connecting the two ends of the gut).  Worse still, most people keep towels in the bathroom (near the toilet). Every flush of the toilet sends mist with millions of microbes, ranging from H.pylori,  salmonella and other deadly bacteria and viruses. When you wash your hands ready for a meal, and dry them with your body towel, there's high chance you are directly ingesting your fecal matter, or, if in a shared lavatory, someone else's faeces. Unless cleaned well, viruses such as human papillomavirus (causes warts, anal cancer and cervical cancer) can be transmitted when towels are shared with infected individuals. So, what to do? 1. Launder towels once a week. 2. Use hot water and det...

The African excels in one area

The African excels in one area; taking advantage of another fellow's desperate situation. As soon as it starts to rain, the cost of umbrellas and matatu fares rise. If you land in a matatu stage and the number of passengers increase compared to the available vehicles, the fare will increase by 50%.


And now as the matatu crackdown intensifies, the police take advantage to start making extraneous demands on all motorists. They will check your fire extinguisher, first-aid kit, dustbin  etc, and if you satisfy that, they want to find out if your wipers have enough water and are working.


Africa, why?

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