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The Mystery of Africa

Andy sees the huge problems that contemporary Africa experiences in Nigeria. And he has this concept that he's come up with to help explain what to him is one of the mysteries in the book, which is why is his life? HXVX. He feels as if it's like a super force or something,. Like a kind of a god or something or maybe a super billion actually that is actually like trying to wasn't things and wasn't his own situation and all that. So Andy decides to adopt that and to call the issues, the different issues plaguing Africa as the construct which he calls HXV X. Does it work? I think it does.

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