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- From: pmmst8+@pitt.edu (Paul M Mweene)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
- Subject: Re: Article: 'Africa's dysfunctional politics'
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 04:26:29 GMT
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- (Wilson S. Ross) writes:
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- >Trucks travel both ways. The significance of SA here is it is a trade hub,
- >and truckers have money & presumably a taste for casual sex.
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- Obviously trucks must travel both ways or they would end up in one place.
- Truck drivers are victims not the inintiators of the disease. Furthermore
- truckers earn their sex by conveying goods duty free across borders and
- giving "transport" to crossborder "lady buisnessmen"...
- I am well aware of all this...
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- >How does polygamy become the salvation of African men then? At < 5% it
- >would seem not worth discussing in that light (you mentioned that it
- >saved men from homosexuality).
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- I never metnioned that polygamy saved men from homosexuality. African men
- (Zambian) cannot concive of sodomy..Not even if they are single. I am in
- a position to know since I spent 5 years in in an all male boarding school
- and another 5 in University... Not to mention that I know Zambians well..
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- >
- >This is on the order of 1% for all ages & probably close to 0% for
- >procreative age. Does anyone have figures for specific African countries?
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- 21 girls are born for every 20 boys. More boys die under 5 than girls.
- Males outlive females.....the above surely does not apply here
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- >Bill Ross
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- makala
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