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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTanzania's President Magufuli calls for end to birth control
This is insane. He is insane.
Tanzania's President John Magufuli has urged women to stop taking birth control pills, saying the country needs more people.
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Tanzania has a population of around 53 million people, with 49% of them living on less than $2 (£1.50) a day.
On average, a woman in Tanzania has more than five children, among the highest rates in the world.
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Last year he proposed that pregnant schoolgirls be blocked from resuming their education after giving birth.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-45474408
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Tanzania has a population of around 53 million people, with 49% of them living on less than $2 (£1.50) a day.
On average, a woman in Tanzania has more than five children, among the highest rates in the world.
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Last year he proposed that pregnant schoolgirls be blocked from resuming their education after giving birth.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-45474408
UN median projected population for Tanzania by 2100: 300 million. The low end of the 95% probability estimate peaks over 140 million, around 2090. https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/TOT/
And this guy wants them to stop what little birth control they use? Plus, check out the attitude of the parliament speaker to women at the BBC story ...
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Tanzania's President Magufuli calls for end to birth control (Original Post)
muriel_volestrangler
Sep 2018
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That's insane, but isn't FGM is still popular there, although illegal...
TreasonousBastard
Sep 2018
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(82,849 posts)1. Does he need a justice for his supreme court?
We could send Kavanaugh over.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)2. That's insane, but isn't FGM is still popular there, although illegal...
From one of the links in the article:
In our series of letters from African journalists, Elizabeth Ohene considers the controversial proposal to limit women to having three babies in Ghana.
Among the Ga, the people who are indigenous to Ghana's capital, Accra, a woman is entitled to a live sheep on the delivery of her 10th child. The word for it is "nyongmato".
I am not making this up even though it does sound like the kind of apocryphal story that is regularly made up.
Lots of very important people among the Gas can testify to this. Unfortunately, I have not met any woman who has actually got a live sheep for having given birth to 10 children.
Indeed, I have never met any woman who has had 10 children.
I don't know if I have been moving in the wrong circles, because I don't even know any woman who has had five children. OK, as soon as I wrote that, I realised I was wrong.
Among the Ga, the people who are indigenous to Ghana's capital, Accra, a woman is entitled to a live sheep on the delivery of her 10th child. The word for it is "nyongmato".
I am not making this up even though it does sound like the kind of apocryphal story that is regularly made up.
Lots of very important people among the Gas can testify to this. Unfortunately, I have not met any woman who has actually got a live sheep for having given birth to 10 children.
Indeed, I have never met any woman who has had 10 children.
I don't know if I have been moving in the wrong circles, because I don't even know any woman who has had five children. OK, as soon as I wrote that, I realised I was wrong.