Yesterday after work I asked my Malawian friend, Cheeks, about stopping after you hit someone with your car, he said “NEVER! You drive straight to the police station.” But he gave a different reason than the risk of being beaten by an angry mob. He says that people will put dead bodies on the road (I think mostly in the night) so you think that you have hit them and then when you get out of the car conspirers jack you.
It reminds me of South Africa, where they call rocks ‘skeleton keys’ because they are used to smash windows for robbers to get in. But also people will throw rocks at your car windows to get you to stop.
All this said, in my entire month in Malawi I have never felt threatened.
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