Aibinos deserve greater care and attention

BY NDUMBE BELL JOSEPH GASTON IN DOUALA In anticipation of the commemoration of the International Albinism Awareness Day next June 13 reports collected as part of FabAfriq’s 7thedition of their activities to raise awareness of albinos’ plight in Cameroon, indicate that the snobbism, discrimination in the education system, employment, stigmatisation in other circles, are drastically dropping. Albinism, we are told by experts in the domain, is an inherited non-contagious defect where the parents usually carry the gene even if they do not appear albinists themselves. It is not ethnicity- based and is found in all the countries across the globe.…