Jaboya: Fishing Young Girls in Kenya

Monday, September 15th, 2008

Jaboya is a form of bartering observed on the coast of Kenya where a customer is also a lover. Men fish and women buy the fish to sell on the market. A woman without a boyfriend or a male partner would not be able to obtain fish. Women with ...

Fighting “common nonsense”

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

“A tiny group of Republican senators continues to block a vote on an important bill to increase American spending on AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis around the world” i.e. PEPFAR. Republicans opposing the re-authorisation of PEPFAR have done so on different grounds. A recurring argument being the cost of the President's ...