Africans will be africans no matter where they reside. It is called culture, not color.
All the bars on doors and wire over the windows tell me they have a massive problem with theft and breaking and entering. If you have so little to even afford paint for your building, but spend a poor man’s fortune on security, this says to me that the number one concern is theft. Even of a barber shop? What’s really there to steal, for goodness sake?!
So why is that so in black communities worldwide? I’ve seen Indian, South Asian and Hispanic tenements/ghettoes/barrios that didn’t need such high levels of security. That seems to point to a culture thing — Black culture. Take by force or guile; no respect for private property...