Ha! Like that line. Perhaps change Africa to New Money?
SubSaharan Africa has a total GDP output of 1 Trillion USD against a population approaching 1 billion... Close to 8% of that comes from Gauteng province in SA... Average per capita GDP is 1,000 USD (basically, the average African does not 'generate' enough to buy a MacBook. Contrast that to 15 trillion in the Euro zone (which has half our population, btw). Average per-capita is 30,000 USD. Middle East has a GDP output of 5 Trillion USD, on a population of 460M. Roughly 10,000 USD per person... And the Middle East economy is going to accelerate buoyed by OPEC.
If the difference had been KES 10,000 would you have still bought it? What if the price difference had been KES 30,000? Where would you draw the line?
If the price differential was more than 10% of the cost of the device, I would not have bought it. Problem though is availability... Another alternative is getting DHL to ship it to you. They are expensive but they can get it from their Sarit Shop in 1 week.