Annotated Bibliography The African Albino Epidemic

Annotated Bibliography: The African Albino Epidemic For many years the targeting and murdering of people with Albinism has been occurring in sub-Saharan Africa for spiritual powers, good fortune, and monetary gain. As the world becomes more modern and civilized one would think that this would be coming to an end, instead it has increased over the years. Many solely blame witch doctors, however even with laws preventing this and witch doctors being arrested; the hunting of people with Albinism has spiked. This has led to the need for further research being done on not only witch doctors being the cause, but also more underlying causes that have not been thought about before. In finding these it will help to answer why the albino body part†¦show more content†¦This credible source could be useful in my research by showing how sub-Saharan Africa’s health centers are in dire condition. It would also be useful because it shows how spirituality and medicine go hand-in-hand, especially in developing countries. Richter, Linda M., et al. Adolescents in the City: Material and Social Living Conditions in Johannesburg–Soweto, South Africa. Urban Forum, vol. 20, no. 3, Aug. 2009, pp. 319-34. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1007/s12132-009-9065-x. Accessed 3 Apr. 2017. In their article Adolescents in the City: Material and Social Living Conditions in Johannesburg–Soweto, South Africa, Linda M. Richter and her colleagues show that sub-Saharan Africa was not on track to decreasing the extreme poverty levels as they should. They also found that as the urban areas grow in Africa, the poverty also does. In these areas half of the children do not live with their parents due to abandonment or because they are deceased, do not have hot water, and do not have all of the normal commodities in their homes. Overall this article shows the harsh conditions that sub-Saharan African adolescents are faced with. This article is credible due to its sample size that accurately represented the diversity of the area, the depth of the research done by the researchers and due to the lack of bias in the article. I could use this in my research to