The African Accent
Somebody asked me to write about sex. Apparently sex sells. Even the top three words searched on the Sheng Kamusi seem to suggest so. But when I did a little research, I realized that only scandalous sex sells.
For example, IPS News had an article titled 'Family Planning Not Only For Women' published on June 18th. When I posted it on Facebook, like I usually do with most articles I find interesting, there was not even one comment on it. That's not strange. Not all my Facebook posts get comments. I don't think anybody read it though. Maybe I should have quoted an excerpt:
"Family planning is only for women. And it makes them promiscuous. I would never advise my wife to use those things [contraceptives] because the role of a woman is to give birth to children," Zaddock Odhiambo, a 28-year-old father of six remarked.
Then there was the IRIN Africa article titled 'South Africa: One in four men rape'.
"Asked about their age at the first time they had forced a woman or girl into sex, 9.8 percent said they were under 10 years old, 16.4 percent were 10-14 years old, 46.5 percent were 15-19 years old, 18.6 percent were 20-24 years old, 6.9 percent were 25-29 years old, and 1.9 percent were 30 or older."
Again, not a word from anybody.
But, the sex scandal allegedly involving Zain Uganda's operations director, [Name omitted after a reader request], continues to generate interest since the adult blog, titled 'Inside Karen Lucas; Plus other things sexual ... ' [WARNING! SEXUALLY EXPLICIT PICTURES] released steamy pictures of him, and young lady sharing intimate moments. I don't know if it is indeed Mr. Ops Director, since I've never seen the guy.
Rumor has it that he left the pictures on his work computer. An IT guy found them, and tried to blackmail him. When that didn't work, Mr. IT Man released the pics to the rest of the world. Apparently Mr. Ops Director has since lost his job. I tried to verify that with Zain Uganda, but I got no response, although their website still lists his name, as of the date of this post.
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