On Wednesday, June 13, the world celebrated the International Albinism Awareness Day, with a lot of concerns about the discrimination, stigmatization, persecution and killings of people with albinism.

However, the concerns for Namibia was quite different.

Namibia has the most albinos per capita in the world. The country, with a population of about 2.4 million people, has between 1,800 and 2,000 people living with the condition.

In countries like Tanzania, attacks against albinos are rife as their bodies are considered a prized asset on the so-called black market, where parts are sold for use in witchcraft rituals.

In Namibia however, the biggest threat to Namibian albinos is skin cancer.

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