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White And Black (Mulatos)
''White and Black: Crimes of Color'' is a Canadian documentary directed by Jean-François Méan. Broadcast throughout Tanzania in 2010, it portrays the discrimination, hardships and stigmatisation endured by persons with albinism in Tanzania. Its premiere in Dar es Salaam was inaugurated by Tanzania's Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda. After its broadcast, the murder rate of persons with albinism in Tanzania, which had been stable for three straight years, dramatically decreased (90%). The film became the cornerstone of Pamoko: a multimedia awareness campaign to end trade for albino body parts in Tanzania. It included notable Tanzanian artists: K-sher, Fid Q, Bi Chau and King Majuto. Synopsis Since 2007, Tanzania a murder wave of persons with albinism has swept the country to fuel an illicit trade in their body parts. Vicky Ntetema, a BBC Swahili radio journalist decides to investigate this trade and expose the roots of the beliefs that fuel it. She follows the fate of the su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persecution Of People With Albinism
Persecution of people with albinism (sometimes abbreviated PWA) is based on the belief that certain body parts of albinistic people can transmit magical powers. Such superstition is present especially in some parts of the African Great Lakes region, it has been promulgated and exploited by witch doctors and others who use such body parts as ingredients in rituals, concoctions and potions with the claim that their magic will bring prosperity to the user (''muti'' or medicine murder). As a result, people with albinism have been persecuted, killed and dismembered, and graves of albinos dug up and desecrated. At the same time, people with albinism have also been ostracised and even killed for exactly the opposite reason, because they are presumed to be cursed and bring bad luck. The persecutions of people with albinism take place mostly in Sub-Saharan African communities, especially among East Africans. Also availablin PDF format Albinism is a genetically inherited condition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mizengo Pinda
Mizengo Kayanza Peter Pinda (born 12 August 1948) is a Tanzanian CCM politician who was Prime Minister of Tanzania from 2008 to 2015. He was a Member of Parliament from 2000 to 2015. Life and career Pinda was born in the Rukwa Region."Mizengo Kayanza Peter Pinda becomes new Tanzanian premier" African Press Agency, February 8, 2008. He holds a degree in law from the , which he earned in 1974.Angel Navuri [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albinism
Albinism is the congenital absence of melanin in an animal or plant resulting in white hair, feathers, scales and skin and pink or blue eyes. Individuals with the condition are referred to as albino. Varied use and interpretation of the terms mean that written reports of albinistic animals can be difficult to verify. Albinism can reduce the survivability of an animal; for example, it has been suggested that albino alligators have an average survival span of only 24 hours due to the lack of protection from UV radiation and their lack of camouflage to avoid predators. It is a common misconception that all albino animals have characteristic pink or red eyes (resulting from the lack of pigment in the iris allowing the blood vessels of the retina to be visible), however this is not the case for some forms of albinism. Familiar albino animals include in-bred strains of laboratory animals (rats, mice and rabbits), but populations of naturally occurring albino animals exist in the wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicky Ntetema
Vicky Ntetema (born ) is a Tanzanian journalist known for breaking the story about the Persecution of people with albinism, murder of persons with albinism in Tanzania. Later, she became Executive Director of Under the Same Sun (UTSS) in Tanzania. Life and career Ntetema was born in Tanzania in 1958. With a government scholarship she studied in the Soviet Union and received her Master's degree in Journalism in 1985 and also received her MSc in Information Systems Development in 1998 at the London School of Economics in the UK. In 1991, Ntetema joined the BBC as a Swahili an electronic media journalist (radio presenter and producer) in London and in 2006 a senior journalist and bureau chief for the BBC World Service in Tanzania. Ntetema came to notice when in 2008 she broke a story about the murder of persons with albinism in Tanzania. Ntetema later left the BBC to become Executive Director of Under the Same Sun in Tanzania, a Canadian charity promoting the human rights of persons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
