Why Poor People are Gullible
I was born to a single mother in a very poor setting. My mother tells me that she delivered me at a Traditional Birth Attendant’s place. Reasons for this were mainly two fold. First, my mother had gone through a bitter separation from my father and she was broke to the bone. She couldn’t afford the hospital dues and she was so proud to beg. Secondly and the most important reason her choosing to deliver me at a TBA’s place was because she believed or had been told that someone who didn’t wish her well had decided that she will not deliver me and if she tries, we would both die. She believes to this day that she carried me in her womb for almost 12 months. I am a firm believer in science, I am sure that there are so many explanations for my mothers belief, chief of which could be the fact that she miscounted the months. On the other, I being the fourth and last child of my mother, I ...