>>2772330
>mega cheap quiet African beach town
The only place these exist are in Morocco. West Africa is roughly 2-3 times as expensive to travel as tropical shitholes on other continents. Where there's not a consistent tourist presence, there's no cash flow to make backpacker infrastructure sustainable for local businesspeople. There are beach towns here and there, but they cater to wealthy German overlanders and French female sexpats, not to crusties like you. The closest I have seen was Oussouye in Casamance, where there were almost-cheap packpacker-ish accommodations 1/3 full of actual backpackers, and white people drinking cheap-ish beers in streetside cafes. However, that was years ago.

To understand why >>2772762 is right, you have to understand what makes Africa different from SEA or Latam, which is a backdrop of cultural poverty, in some areas absolute cultural poverty. "Absolute" means no tasty local food because people can only afford to eat bread and pasta, no traditional clothing because "donated" Western t-shirts have killed the local cotton trade, no cottage industries for neat handicrafts and art because plastic chinkshit is being imported by the containerful. No local pride because young people all blame the west for their problems so see no reason to take personal responsibility for fixing said problems. There are some local traditions like drumming, witchcraft, but they will not be on display for you to experience.
Don't get me wrong, I love west Africa and I would go back tomorrow if I could. But what makes it worthwhile is not the same as what makes Thailand worthwhile. I go to hike in nature and visit friends I've made. Solo backpacking there sucks, maybe it would be good with 2 people so you can laugh together at the dirt and weirdness.

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Has anybody ever been to Benin? I want to NEET out in a mega cheap quiet African beach town with a hot thick black voodoo gf.