Word: africas
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Elizabeth S. Nowak ’10 practices what is called aggressive modesty. When asked a question about one of her humanitarian aid trips to Africa or sub-Saharan adventures, she tends to respond with a question to avoid talking about herself. Stories like how she instructed Sudanese midwives in newborn resuscitation and spent nights in Kenya defending her room from murderous swarms of locusts only come out in passing...
This is impressive for someone who seems so likely to be continents away in her future. Nowak was first hooked by the pull of Africa when she was a young child and her father brought home a National Geographic CD of African music. Growing up in East Aurora, a small town outside of Buffalo, NY, this was a thing of rarity. “Where I live is pretty isolated and white. My parents made an effort to expose us to cultural things,” she says...
...have sex with men" - the terminology often used because of the stigma around being openly gay or bisexual. Many homosexuals marry or date women and identify themselves as heterosexual even though they are sleeping with men. That community is disproportionately affected by the disease in sub-Saharan Africa, in part because of a long-standing unwillingness on the continent to acknowledge homosexuality. Indeed, the situation is one of double jeopardy, combining the pariah status of homosexuals in a deeply conservative culture with the stigma of AIDS, which until recently was perceived as a heterosexual disease in Africa, even...
...Rick Warren's prized achievements over the past few years has been his outreach to Africa. The influential pastor of Saddleback Church in Southern California, author of best-selling book The Purpose Driven Life, has become an influential voice in several countries on the continent, including Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda. But that prominence has recently drawn him into controversy. When the Ugandan legislature began considering a draconian anti-homosexuality bill - which in one version would have punished "aggravated homosexuality" with death or life imprisonment - Warren was castigated for not denouncing the proposed law, especially when one of its most public...
...communication with members of Uganda's Parliament about the issue, saying it was only the Archbishop of Uganda with whom he privately shared his "opposition and concern." On Tuesday, the Rev. Kapya Kaoma, an Anglican pastor from Zambia and the author of a recent report on gays in Africa, said that Warren had immense influence among Uganda's political lite, counting many parliamentarians, including the country's First Lady Janet Museveni (who is reportedly close to Ssempa), among his friends. "He eats with them, he knows what goes on, they respect him," said Kaoma in a conference call. Said...