The thing which always confuses me about Sub-Saharan Africa (I am not from here, but lived here for more than a decade) is that what I think of as the normal rule of societal selfishness is inverted.
In American/European societies we are selfish individuals, which is why we are generous as societies. I want to get to the front of the line as fast as possible, which means that an orderly line is the best. I want to be helped by the police, so I pay my taxes (admittedly this analogy is less relevant now that boomers are getting old and voting for whatever shithead cuts their taxes) etc etc.
Meanwhile in every place I lived or visited south of the Sahara I found that people were generous as individuals (incredibly willing to help those around them - family or close networks - whether financially or via connections and the like) which resulted in societies being selfish. Want to get to the front of the line? You're best getting to know the guy who runs the kiosk. Want to be helped by the police? The commander whose son is at the same school as your daughter must be able to help somehow.
I am sure there's a better way of explaining this principle, and perhaps I am confusing effect with cause, but it always blows my mind when I watch people block a junction and make themselves later for work than they would be if they just sat their ass in the queue. Literally, people work like donkeys and run all sorts of insane hustles (*cough*) just so that they can maintain a lower middle class standard of living with a very high degree of precarity while overpaying for healthcare and schools.
Also, I have never understood why Sub-Saharan bureaucracies work on a fuck-around-and-find-out principle. With the exception of Rwanda (not a compliment, btw) every place I have tried to get permits, licenses, official documents etc has done the same thing. You can never find the next step for yourself- what you have to do is do something wrong, and then an official will send you back to go and do the right thing. Why not just make a sign?
Anyway, rant over.