Africa Is a Country

Snake Oil

Africa Is a Country Podcast
African Five-a-Side Podcast

Snake Oil

By
Sean Jacobs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKOwDQcPwbs

Selling desperate people false hope, especially AIDS patients, are common on the African continent–well documented in my native country, South Africa–now there’s this “faith healer” in Tanzania who has people in East Africa traveling thousands of miles for a homebrewed drink that he claims can cure AIDS, cancer, diabetes, and other “incurable diseases.” There’s no evidence it does. The report above is by Kenya’s private NTV network. Above is Part One of the NTV report; below is Part Two.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c03FulCf6LY

There’s also Jeffrey Gettleman’s report in The New York Times which reveals the “healer” even has a Facebook page.

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