No, it's not a thread fail. People are uncomfortable. It's a situation where an entire frigging continent is a clusterfuck. You've got the whole "oooooh, we made Africans slaves" vs "Holy Shit, WTF is WRONG with you people!?!" (considering that one of the common beliefs on that continent is that fucking a virgin cures AIDS) combined with the tinpot dictatorships ... the continent (you can't call it a country, it's too fractured) is a mess economically, ecologically, socially.
These people burn suspected witches, for heaven's sake! And I'm talking children, under the age of 10! The continent is rife with violence, superstition, insularity. No better than their ancestors who were selling rivaling tribes to the slave traders. A continent willing to cut it's own brothers throat.