Top Ten Differences Between Lusaka and Johannesburg

• 10. The best pizza in Johannesburg is not found at Pizza Hut.

9. You can’t use Uber to get around Lusaka.

8. People in Johannesburg do not greet the arrival of a new Pick n Pay as an indicator of economic transformation.

7. Johannesburg is the largest city of a country that year after year has one of the highest rates of economic inequality in the world.

6. You can walk safely around Lusaka.

5. In Johannesburg, there is the history of apartheid to explain how their townships got created.

4. At immigration at the Johannesburg airport, the number of people in the diplomat line is not 1/3 the number in the visitor line.

3.  In Johannesburg you can visit monuments to white pioneers as well as the homes—and prisons–where Nelson Mandela and Mohandas Gandhi stayed.

2. It is not common for white people in Lusaka to have an existential sadness about the country.

1. In Lusaka, there are few people with extra body fat. In Johannesburg, there are so many large people that men’s clothing sizes are one and even two sizes larger than in the USA. I bought a medium-sized shirt here. In the USA I buy extra-large!