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Viva Tanzania

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Viva Tanzania

By
Sean Jacobs

For all the gross, lurid news stories or the films you see about fatal  violence against, and neglect of people suffering from albinism in East Africa, this one about Tanzanians electing an albino, Salum Khalfani Barwani, to Parliament, is good news.  Barwani, an opposition MP, will represent a rural constituency.  (BTW, a well-known rapper, Sugu, was also elected to Parliament in the elections in which the majority party’s parliamentary shrunk by over 50 seats.)

CNN, BBC and Afronline.

Image: Pieter Hugo, “Portraits of people with albinism” (2003)

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