Here are some more interesting anecdotes and stories acquired during the student strikes.

I had a conversation with one neighbor who was talking about how that week at church they had several guest pastors who came and really opened her eyes to the workings of the devil and demons in our lives. To which, I said nothing, but left feeling a little ill.

Later that night I spoke with another neighbor who was telling me all about how people in America and Europe don't believe in God and how that was the plan of the Devil, to get people to not believe in God, but here in Africa it was very different, it was trying to get people to believe that because Europe is more developed everything they do is correct, thus turning people into weird sexual deviants who don't believe in God. He then proceeded to tell me all about the Illuminati and Satan and how the eye on the one dollar bill is the devil's eye. To which I replied....'so, what?' He thought that was an incredulous thought and laughed. Then he gave me a book all about Rock 'n Roll and subliminal messages, which I naturally read while laughing inside. Turns out among others ABBA is a terrible satanic group, as is The Who, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Queen, Pink Floyd and many others. After reading it I mostly just wanted to listen to those bands.

The next day I returned the book and told him that I've heard about subliminal messages in old records, that if you played them backwards they would say something different, and I knew all about the weird symbols that people use that could be satanic, and then I said, who cares? Even if the lead singers of these groups did make a pact with Satan, there's no harm to me in that, it's their soul that is lost and now I get to benefit from their fantastic musical abilities. While I told him this mostly jokingly, and that people knew about Illuminati and the dollar bill, but no one cares or really believes it, so what's the point?
I believe the point that he was making was that Satan had insinuated himself into all parts of our society and whether we were aware of it or not, he had a hand in controlling our lives.

Which led me to a an endless, intellectually unsolvable argument- Satan exists and has a physical hand in shaping lives, influencing how we make choices, stealing souls and using demons to control our lives and insinuating to Western cultures that that isn't possible, thus getting a deeper hold on our lives. How can you know who is right? You can't because if you say Satan can't steal people's souls, sorcerers don't exist then they will just come back with the argument that sure he can, but he's tricked your mind into thinking he can't. Infuriating.

Next he told me that I need to pay special attention when I go to the market because one time this women bought vegetables from a Nigerian, when she got home she was really tired and decided to put the veggies in the fridgeand make her sauce tomorrow. So she puts the veggies in the fridge and goes to bed. Very early the next morning she is awoken by a knocking on the door. Her kids get up and tell her there is a man at the door. She goes to the door and finds the man she bought veggies from the day before. She tells him that she paid him and doesn't understand why he is there. He said, well, you bought the veggies from me yesterday, go to where you stored them and look at it. So the woman goes and opens the fridge and finds instead of the veggies a human arm.  There the story ends and he looks at me expectantly, and I say....I don't think that's true.

Then he tells me another story about an old man who had to go to Nigeria and he was really old and the people wanted to eat him because he shouldn't be alive, because he's too told...

Then he told me about a village in the Democratic Republic of Congo where there are exceptionally beautiful women, and this man lives with one for several years and they have kids and then one day she says to her man, you know, we've been together a long time and you've never met my family, isn't it about time we went to my village and met my family? And then my neighbor says and if he goes, it's finished. I ask him what he means, and he just takes his hand and brings it up to his mouth, as if to say they would eat him. And I start laughing. Weird cannibalistic stories.