Posted on 09/08/2021 8:07:40 PM PDT by Norski
‘Clean Nigeria: Use the Toilet’ campaign
"Open defecation
The main problem is that due to open defecation and lack of wash water, sanitation is a big issue.They lack basic toilets, so they don’t put the human excreta in the right place or even if they collect the excreta in a bucket, they just dump it in areas where people are preparing and eating food and where children play. It has really been a nightmare and it’s embarrassing in a way because most of the populace is actually right here in Yola North which is the main local government that is affected. Usually when the outbreaks occur, particularly in Mubi, there is quick mobilisation and it’s a smaller area.
"Why can’t government come up with a legislation, making it mandatory for every house to have a toilet?
Yes, but at the moment, people build homes without toilets. Even when you are travelling and need to use the toilet, there is none, it’s not healthy. The facilities have to be in place.
Onchocerciasis
Onchocerciasis or River blindness is another study we are doing currently. It’s really interesting because although there has been interventions with Ivermectin but there hasn’t been anything proactive in seeing the effects particularly on the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in Mubi. Interestingly, I realised it actually affects women’s menstrual cycle and fertility. It is amongst the group of what is called Neglected Tropical Diseases so there has not really been a lot of investigations and that’s the new area we are looking into." . . ." . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at vanguardngr.com ...
White people have been digging their water wells and privies forever. They are still pooping in their drinking water. They never learn. Maybe math is racist. Do #1 and #2 in the toilet. Simple concept. Low IQ.
This was just an article showing that ivermectin was not a cause of infertility, but that river blindness most likely was the culprit.
True. Sanitation is critical.
You need political power (non corrupt); money; education; and resultant infrastructure to remedy problems like this.
Be glad that you were born into the advanced civilization that you were - along with a lot of ‘Black’ people who also know how to handle toilets (including a lot of the ones who build and install YOUR toilets now.)
It’s ridiculous to blame the poverty and backwardness of many areas of Africa on the mere fact that the people there aren’t ‘White’.
There are lots of historical, political and cultural reasons for their issues - and their mere skin color doesn’t happen to be one of them.
(There are still people in this country that my old Granny always called ‘White Trash’ - and there are Black people in Africa who put those to shame.)
I read a similar essay about another African country, I believe Mauritania, where there is much outdoor defecation in a dry, dusty and WINDY environment. Poop dust gets everywhere, including the water.
Read the Bell Curve, FRiend. Avg sub-Saharan IQ is 70. Corrupt politics, poor education, poverty all stem from there.
This is”The Heart Of Darkness.”
People still had out houses when I was a kid.
It's not hard to do.
Sounds more like SF to me.
San Francisco is on it’s way.
The post implied that only ‘White’ people have been smart enough to design a toilet and a sanitary way of disposing of human waste, and that WE been doing it ‘forever’ - as if nobody non-white has done.
I assume that he/she meant ‘Western Europeans’; but styles of toilets and systems that flush away waste with water have been found from times up to 5000 years ago - in ancient China, Egypt and - Africa. A Babylonian tablet from 1800 B.C. mentions a system, too.
The first design of anything like our modern flushable toilet didn’t come along until 1596 (there are some indications that it was actually first designed by a Persian somewhat earlier - I don’t know if the poster considers ancient Persians as ‘White’) - and nobody even patented the idea until 1775.
Only the wealthier ancient people had these - but that was also true in England and the US until the mid 1800s (not exactly ‘forever’ ago), when indoor ‘bathrooms’ began to be built for the more hoi polloi among us. Even then, a lot of ‘White’ people were resistant to the whole idea, thinking that it was unpleasant and unhealthy to have a toilet inside the house.
For a very long time, even we ‘White’ people did what a lot of Africans do today - we dumped our waste in a stream. Or let it pile up in a stinking privy until some hire came and cleaned it out.
Were these “African” toilets in Egypt?
There have been various designs of toilets and early plumbing in both ancient Egypt and Africa (In Africa, I was referencing Tanzania, to be precise).
They were different peoples, you know, even though there was probably a lot of mixing-up-and-turning-around - like there has been all over the world, ‘forever’.
I know who many of my ancestors were back to the Plantagenets, hundreds of years ago. Do you know who yours were THOUSANDS of years ago?
(And remember - genealogy is only as good as people were honest. There might be something very interesting in your own woodpile; and if you knew about it, you might not be so disparaging of people who came long before you and understood some things, in their ways, that you will never understand.)
I am a descendant of the Plantagenets too.
Well, Hullo, Coz.
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