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...shortage of film requires that doctors choose between taking the recommended two-view image of a patient's breasts and taking a one-view image of twice as many women. As for a desperately poor land like Kenya? If you can't travel overseas for treatment, says Mary Onyango, a resident of the country whose disease was diagnosed at age 40, "you just sit and wait for your death." Says Nancy Brinker, founder of the Komen group: "Poverty is a known carcinogen...
...educated, middle-class hip-hop lovers who reinforce Western ideas of how modern Africans should behave. "They're getting people [as contestants] who watch the show already, not someone from a shack in Kampala," says Doug Mitchell, a lecturer in television at South Africa's Rhodes University. But Lorraine Onyango, 19, an information-technology student in Kenya, disagrees. "It's better with everyone from a different background," she says, chatting with friends in a Nairobi hotel. "They're learning about each other, and that's interesting." Even if, in the end, all they collectively learn is that a household...
...Press Freedom in Africa: Challenges and Opportunites--with Erica Chinje of Cameroon National Television; Isaac Bantu of BBC Africa Service, Liberia; and Charles Onyango-Obbo of Weekly Topic, Uganda. In Coolidge Hall, room...
...widespread practice of polygamy, which most of the young women of the cities vehemently oppose. "If my husband took another wife, I would hound him to death," says one Nairobi university graduate. "But anyway, he wouldn't." A surprising number of educated women seem to disagree. Reasons Grace Onyango, Kenya's first African woman to be elected to Parliament: "If a man can handle 15 wives at one time, he can probably lead a nation." In any case, few African males favor abolishing the practice. As a Kenyan chauffeur puts it: "A man with one wife is like...