Africa: From Cleaning Corpses to Sex With Strangers, Widow Rituals Fuel Disease in Africa

Douala/Dakar — "If you accept these degrading rituals, you run the risk of disease. If you don't, you are ostracised."

When Clarisse's husband died of malaria last year in the Cameroonian city of Douala, she was kicked out of their home by his family and forced to marry his brother.

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