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To avoid getting ‘ghost babies’, learn to wear proper underwears

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Lady’s knickers      Photo: Courtesy

Dancehall musician AK47 and younger brother to singer Chameleone passed on mid last month and it got me thinking about traditions and how they apply to modern life.

Traditionally, funerals were about food, booze and, ehh, cultural sex; the argument being that they were creating continuity through procreation to replace the deceased. With the advent of the HIV scourge, how is the “procreation” to be done through the “protection”?

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