Epidemic of Ignorance

Epidemic of Ignorance: “On Thursdays — Jammeh’s healing powers are only available to him on that day of the week he says — the president frequently allows Gambian television to film him as he defeats AIDS: Patients lie flat on their backs as the president whirls around them and mumbles verses from the Koran. He slaps green sludge onto their skin, sprinkles liquid from an old Evian bottle over them and gives them a brown broth to drink. A quick banana snack completes the therapy.” (via Passport)