Newspaper? That's nothing! My colleague used to fly said Caravan to cruise level and say to the pax, "Wake me up when you see the coast" - and go to sleep for 3 hrs!
And he wasn't African, he was ex USN!!!
I suppose the real "You know you're in Africa when ..." moment was when one of the pax, a UK multi PHD Professor who'd probably been in Africa too long asked me why I didn't sleep in the cruise too!