Anyone who has ever lived and worked in sub-Saharan Africa knows that one of the best kept secrets of the “Dark” Continent is the extent of cannibalism within its population. It’s just been considered politically incorrect and racist to discuss the subject.
When I worked in West Africa twenty-five years ago, the population at that time was estimated to be 40% HIV positive. When that degree of HIV is found in populations that practice cannibalism, what could possibly go wrong?
In my humble opinion, there is a strong possibility that there is a connection between a population with an HIV compromised immune system, cannibalism, and Ebola.
from a 1914 edition of the Catholic encyclopedia:
“In 1895 the first two Christian marriages in Ubanghi were solemnized before the vicar apostolic. The mission spread to the surrounding villages and later to the Alima, 300 kilometres up the Congo ; still higher up are the stations at Liranga (at the junction of the Congo and the Ubanghi), founded by Fathers Paris and Allaire on 3 April, 1889; at Bangui (1125 miles from the coast), established among the cannibal Bondjos and Buzerus and pastoral Ndris, by Fathers Sallaz and Rémy, in January, 1894; and at Sainte-Famille among the Banziris, in 1895, by Father Moreau, — this is now the headquarters of the Prefecture of Ubanghi Chari.”
” Near these stations have been established “free villages” where natives escaping from the clutches of the cannibal or slave owners can reside in safety. Bishop Augouard was awarded a prize of $3000 in April, 1912, by the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in appreciation of his work during thirty-four years in French Congo. “
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LOL. Because a continent of 54 countries, nearly four times larger than the United States, with 1.1 billion people, where the population speaks something like 3000 different languages all somehow keep secret their love for human flesh? Also, has anybody called Africa the Dark Continent since 1920 or thereabouts? You're a weird human type warp.
It’s just been considered politically incorrect and racist to discuss the subject.
No, I think it's perfectly reasonable to talk about cannibalism in Africa and elsewhere. I don't think it's reasonable to label an entire continent as being full of cannibals -- that's astonishingly ignorant and if you want to call it racist, I'm not going to argue with you. Sure there have been isolated instances of cannibalism in a few places - thinking of use as a terror tactic in the Liberian civil war and targeted at pygmy populations in the Second Congo War. But to say that this is a common or accepted practice is ridiculous. That's like saying the Boston Strangler represents an accepted and common American lifestyle.
When I worked in West Africa twenty-five years ago, the population at that time was estimated to be 40% HIV positive.
Again, you're full of crap. There's no place in West Africa where 40% of the population is HIV positive.
When that degree of HIV is found in populations that practice cannibalism, what could possibly go wrong?
There is zero evidence that HIV is transmittable through cannibalism. So your ridiculous premise is getting even more absurd.
In my humble opinion, there is a strong possibility that there is a connection between a population with an HIV compromised immune system, cannibalism, and Ebola.
And so I thank God you're not in any position of authority at the CDC or the WHO.