Get counted to help planning and development processes
President Samia Suluhu Hassan and Zanzibar President Hussein Ali Mwinyi jointly unveil the national logo currently being used to promote the National Populations and Housing Census scheduled for August 23, 2022. The event was held in Zanzibar. PHOTO | FILE
Multiple African communities believed that if you counted children, they would die, get bewitched, or bad luck could befall them. It was a grave matter.
Renowned Ugandan Prof Lawrence Mukiibi told a journalist in 2017 that it was a “taboo for an African man to count children.” When he died, it was reported he had fathered between 50 and 100 children.
