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Racist Myths About African Sexuality Persist in AIDS Prevention Efforts

By Gbemisola Olujobi, Truthdig. Posted July 24, 2008.


The colonialist myth of the oversexed African has resurfaced as an explanation for Africa's high AIDS transmission rate.
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A journalist since 1984, Gbemisola Olujobi is presently a Pulitzer Fellow at the Annenberg School For Communication. She was Editor of the Living Section at The Guardian, Nigeria’s biggest and most influential newspaper, before she was designated a Pulitzer Fellow. The bulk of her work as a journalist has been in the area of women’s rights as human rights.

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