“His place in the nation’s culture is so revered that, traditionally, people hoping to address him in one of his palaces approach by crawling.
But the king presides over a country where youth unemployment is a suffocating 58%…Critics said he showed up at a traditional ceremony wearing a watch that sells for 13 times the annual income of most of his subjects.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/world/africa/king-mswati-eswatini-africa-youth.html
Frank Pasquale /
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