You can't comment like this here. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11533422 and marked it off-topic.

> Do you have a death wish? Because that's what I generally associate with travelling to Africa.

Which countries specifically? You appear to be terribly underinformed about Africa, here's an interesting quiz for you to take[1], see if you can tell which picture was taken in Africa, and which was taken in the US.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHO1a1kvZGo

Burkina and Ghana are generally fairly safe for foreigners (or were during my time there). Things got troublesome as you headed farther north - we (Peace Corps) were not allowed to travel in Mali and Niger at some point (though that didn't stop some, haha).

Although I do take your point - violence wasn't the only threat on a lot of those "roads".

Or America for that matter!