Because the treatment has no medical backing it is just made upWhen people don’t have access to modern medicine they’ll accept anything. I don’t understand why she’s attacking people for poverty?
your parents might have it. its pretty common back homeNever knew this
Is it something badyour parents might have it. its pretty common back home
its a burn mark. loads of somalis believe it cures yellow feverIs it something bad
hey, what is Saado Mire's book called. Also do you have any other book recommendationsThey used to do it because they thought it was medicinal. As for the blood ritual she mentions, I thought Somalis stopped that like 50 years ago? Traditionally that was called Zaar. It used to be done by ignorant nomads even up until the 60s and 70s. I read about it, thinking it must be a lie and asked older relatives thinking they would say it isn’t true, but they said it used to happen in the baadio. Even Saado Mire talks about it in her book, which I read a bit of. It is something Somalis of old used to do. I can’t believe that in some parts of the meey, they’re still doing that. Subhanallah