re: #204 SixDegrees

It isn’t so much the 21st century, as it is the failure of so much of Africa to leave the 14th century and join the modern age. These problems have always been there, festering away quietly, pretty much off everyone’s radar. It’s the recent attention being paid to them that’s different, and welcome, despite the sickening nature of what’s being related.

It is the failure of education in those areas to give the people the knowledge base with which to reject these myths. Sort of an extreme example of the way our own education system has fallen down in some respects.