Sorious Samura, the Bafta award-winning documentary maker from Sierra Leone has made a documentary to try and find out why Aids was destroying his continent and after speaking to a number men came to realise that sexual attitudes played a huge role.
He went further last night, saying that in the pervasive culture, where children start having sex at five, six or seven, 'success [for men] is measured by the number of women they sleep around with' and women 'were disempowered'.
Samura said that many of the youngsters would copy their parents. 'I was hooked on the game of practising what I saw,' he said. 'We used to call the game Mum and Dad. I started having sex when I was seven.'
According to Samura, Africans have to face up to this if there is any hope for the future.
His stand is controversial; he is pointing the finger at the victims themselves. But he said he was not afraid to make such comments because of the horrifying statistics. 'There are 6,000 people dying every day,' he said. 'That is twice those who died in 9/11.' He also pointed to the 26 million Africans who have died from Aids, the same number who are living with it and more than 11 million children who had been orphaned by it. Zambia is not one of the worst hit countries, yet one in five of its people are infected.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1509754,00.html
Didn't the king of Lesotho just take his 12th wife? I heard she is half his age.
He went further last night, saying that in the pervasive culture, where children start having sex at five, six or seven, 'success [for men] is measured by the number of women they sleep around with' and women 'were disempowered'.
Samura said that many of the youngsters would copy their parents. 'I was hooked on the game of practising what I saw,' he said. 'We used to call the game Mum and Dad. I started having sex when I was seven.'
According to Samura, Africans have to face up to this if there is any hope for the future.
His stand is controversial; he is pointing the finger at the victims themselves. But he said he was not afraid to make such comments because of the horrifying statistics. 'There are 6,000 people dying every day,' he said. 'That is twice those who died in 9/11.' He also pointed to the 26 million Africans who have died from Aids, the same number who are living with it and more than 11 million children who had been orphaned by it. Zambia is not one of the worst hit countries, yet one in five of its people are infected.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1509754,00.html
Didn't the king of Lesotho just take his 12th wife? I heard she is half his age.
