Great stuff , I am ex Kenya and Malawi and have a fund of stories , I based an after-dinner speech on humorous happenings in aviation-Africa and it was a sure-fire hit once the ice was broken.
I will cut it all short , but my favorite Nigeria story was the one of the F27 flight out of some small airfield in Northern Nigeria in the 70/80s , where there were , for some unexplainable reason , about 100 peeps with 'Confirmed ' tickets for said 44 pax flight ! The usual Nigerian type queuing meant 110 peeps shoving/shouting/dashing/rioting etc , until the local Army commandant intervened , fired his gun in the air to get attention ( not sure if it was into the ceiling or not ) ,ordered all outside , and ordered them all to take part in a race around the airport perimeter with the first 44 back enjoying a seat to Lagos !! The vision of lots of bloated plutocrats puffing and blowing their way around the airfield has always made me laugh .
Long live Africa !!