"When an important chief died, his contentment in the netherworld was ensured by slaughtering a retinue of servants, wives, and advisors. They were supposed to keep the chief company...for nearly all the Ashanti, ritual murder is now as repulsive a notion as witch burning is for the citizens of Massachusetts."

Blaine Harden, Dispatches From a Fragile Continent

one minute you're laughing at them, the silly people, the next minute you're laughing even harder at yourself. silly people abound...I love my major