"To be a woman in Africa," Dr. Waaldijk said as he stitched her last sutures, "is truly a terrible thing."
The New York Times reports on just one of the hardships that African women endure-- fistulas, that along with polygamy, fgm, poverty, and disease just to start a list. It seems to me that whenever one hears about any part of Africa in the media it is bad news, and having traveled to Senegal this summer I understand why. They say that travel opens one's eyes and changes one's views, perhaps even makes one more compassionate, but I left Senegal something of a social darwinist.
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