The first time I gave birth, after a long and traumatic labor, I held my daughter in my arms while somewhere nearby, silently and out of sight, the part of my body that once tethered us together was ...

Long before the coming of contraceptive pills, injections, and intrauterine devices, African communities were not strangers to family planning. In Bungoma County, traditional practices such as the ...

Of the 109 societies with a designated placenta ritual, one or more connections with some form of magic or supernatural influence were identified in 67 (62%). The most frequent belief (55% of cases), ...