Who would have thought that in a continent where 25% of males in one country can admit to being rapists, where theft is a way of life, and where entire coach loads of footballers can fall under sustained machine gun attacks, that there would be wide ranging prudery.
But the "African Renaissance" statue in Senegal has caused a storm for many reasons, not least apparently because the bare breasted woman is showing too much leg! Yes, her breasts exposed to the sky are apparently OK, but her thighs are considered to be immoral.
Architect Pierre Goudiaby Atepa told journalists in the capital, Dakar, that he had received complaints about the woman's "naked legs". He said that he has now proposed to Mr Wade that the legs be covered with a concrete cloth.
Senegal is largely a Muslim nation but there seems not to be mobs burning Christians or attacking President Wade, because they know what would happen if they did. President Wade has only apologised once over the statue, and this was to Senegal's Christian minority after he compared the "Africa Renaissance" statue to Jesus Christ.
It's really the hopeless continent
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