Everything You Thought You Knew About Orphans In Africa Is Probably Wrong Analysis

When reading the Interview “Everything You Thought You Knew About Orphans in Africa is Probably Wrong” I found it to hit me kind of hard because I have an unconditional love for kids and the heart ache they have endured, from having parents so poor they can’t afford to send their kids to school but an orphan gets more opportunities for education then those who have parents. When the children ask “Mommy, Daddy, why can’t I go to school?” The parents would respond, “Because you’re not an orphan.” African kids who want to go to school can do so as long as they have money or are an orphan, what kind of madness is this? What kind of world do we live in when African kids say ‘I wish my parents were dead so I could get school books.’” The children
A man dies but then they say “No one else made Hamlet’s dead father walk.” Well if he is dead how could he walk anyways? I am not sure, I to assume it is a metaphor for something that I am just not grasping the concept.
Another to kill your sister with witchcraft makes you strong as said in the article “need not fear it takes a strong heart to kill one’s only sister by witchcraft.” I think it takes a weak person to kill their sister by witchcraft if it was possible, to be strong would be to kill your sister of your own hands.
This lady went to Africa because of “Shakespeare in the Bush” that’s just weird or crazy or maybe this what anthropologist are about doing things and researching things from a very small idea or interest, however; I think this is more of an ethical article which I guess would basically be considered Anthropology since it’s about people of many cultures and back grounds. I am going to read this again to try and fully understand it as I did find it to be
I am against any animal cruelty and reading this article kind of angered me. I know she was there for research and to get a view from outside our norms but I don’t think I could watch these fights and not feel some kind of guilt for not stopping research or not. All animals have feeling any living breathing animal does and what would make someone think otherwise? I sure don’t understand it and I don’t think I will ever be able to understand how one can separate their feelings about animal cruelty. I am not saying we should not kill animals because it is necessary for our survival, but they should be killed in a humane way not my a cock fight or any other form of