Can Your Culture Make you Healthier?

CAN YOUR CULTURE MAKE YOU HEALTHIER? This Fulani girl is from the village of Goumbi Kanno, near Niger’s border with Nigeria.  At the time that I met her, I was working for CARE International, conducting breastfeeding education among the mothers of Goumbi Kanno, a village composed of both the Hausa and Fulani ethnic groups.  I was living on the Hausa side of the village, and my first – very judgemental! — impression of Kanno was that it was filthy and neglected.  Read more…