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On Valentine's Day, Supermale Interviews African Men on Infidelity

Thursday, February 16th, 2006 @ 12:24 UTC

by Alice Backer

Countries:: Morocco, Algeria, Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali, Sudan
Topics:: Gender

Supermale, a.k.a. Morad Ouasti (FR) interviews 8 men from all over Africa about infidelity and concludes that there is no consensus on where to draw the line between fidelity and infidelity while personal experience and … convenience influence individual opinions.

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[...] One of the greatest challenges in curating the global online conversation is translation. To present ideas and reflections from one language and culture to another is no easy task and often ends up taking more time than writing the original post. Still, Global Voices is committed to presenting a plethora of voices in as many languages as we can. You may have noticed increased coverage of the Francophone blogosphere by Alice Backer, Arabic-speaking bloggers by Haitham Sabbah, as well as my own translations and those of numerous volunteers from Spanish into English. Likewise, Global Voices posts are frequently translated into other languages such as Portnoy’s volunteer translations into Chinese and Miguel Esquirol’s weekly translation of Eduardo Ávila’s Bolivia coverage. [...]

# 2006-02-22 at 22:59 pm

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