I've been traveling since I was 15 and spent the majority of my life outside Europe... these two millennials, who decide to travel to South Africa in a 4WD without properly preparing for the trip - I've met people like that many times.
You see them taking advantage of local hospitality, you see them getting taken advantage of. You see them adopting a dog, which functions as a relationship stabilizer until it is eaten by crocodiles, and then they adopt another. They muse about each other and border problems, but fail to connect to anyone even though they're invited many times. In Africa, that's pretty hard to do - instead of getting hooked to some place or some people, they just browse through some of the least developed and therefore most interesting countries of the world, staying on campsites rather than an NGO. Germans are not all like that, if you travel a lot, you will invariably meet German expats as we are everywhere, because we can't stand our lifeless culture.
These two at least admit and address their own naivety and raised some money (for an anti-female circumcision project, even though it's the middle of the Ebola outbreak). But they can't get off their high horse - when a witch doctor looks for the thief of their money (which they left on the seat of their unlocked car), the woman just can't help to point out how primitive these Africans are. So German... always the teacher, never the student.
Instead of watching this vanity project, watch films made by locals about locals, not entitled wannabes who take their shallow opinions wherever they go.
You see them taking advantage of local hospitality, you see them getting taken advantage of. You see them adopting a dog, which functions as a relationship stabilizer until it is eaten by crocodiles, and then they adopt another. They muse about each other and border problems, but fail to connect to anyone even though they're invited many times. In Africa, that's pretty hard to do - instead of getting hooked to some place or some people, they just browse through some of the least developed and therefore most interesting countries of the world, staying on campsites rather than an NGO. Germans are not all like that, if you travel a lot, you will invariably meet German expats as we are everywhere, because we can't stand our lifeless culture.
These two at least admit and address their own naivety and raised some money (for an anti-female circumcision project, even though it's the middle of the Ebola outbreak). But they can't get off their high horse - when a witch doctor looks for the thief of their money (which they left on the seat of their unlocked car), the woman just can't help to point out how primitive these Africans are. So German... always the teacher, never the student.
Instead of watching this vanity project, watch films made by locals about locals, not entitled wannabes who take their shallow opinions wherever they go.