The WHYS daily email
| 13:20 UK time, Tuesday, 16 January 2007
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Comment number 1.
At 27th Apr 2009, geosud1 wrote:West African Journeys - Part One
Listening to this, the American expression about the elephant in the room that nobody comments on came strongly to mind.
There are other cultures which routinely practice infanticide as a means of population control. They are where people are living at the margin of resources - the well-known example being the Inuit, where 'excess' babies are left to die in the snow. Could this be the case in Northern Ghana - can it be that if the 'spirit baby' survives infancy, others may indeed die of malnutrition. Why no comment on this in the programme? Is there a (self?) censorship on discussion of overpopulation issues and whether infanticide, under whatever guise, is the traditional control means, which the well-meaning are interfewring in without getting at the root issues - avialability and promotion of contraception and education of women.
It may be these issues will be dealt with in later programmes but the lack of even a mention in this one left a big factual hole.
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Comment number 2.
At 26th Jun 2009, exuberantcleopatra wrote:Am in shock about MJ.I am in India and jut couldn't stop crying and then I questioned God--why im and not politician like Bush whoc ommitted genocide bot physical and financial during their term.
MJ went like a star-the trbutes and obits would have made him a happy man to know that all loved him,something he looked for all his lifeand he went like a SHOWMAN-the greatest performance of his life.
RIP you will be missed
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