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Low Hanging Fruit. Central Europe and Development Aid for Africainto economically and socially unproductive projects. 193 Corruption in Africa is a mementothat shows a lack of conscience allowing someone to become a parasite on the povertyof the most pitiful people in the world who are dying of hunger. Or, using one the buzzwords popular at the start of 2012 in Slovakia, even the poorest of countries have their own“ gorillas” and some even have their own King Kong.The map shows the percentages of girls and women between 15 and 49 who are victims of FGM in Africa.Countries in red are higher than 75 %, orange is 51 to 75 %, yellow is 25 to 50 % and green is less than 25 %.This data is from the period from 1997 to 2006.Source: UNICEF, http://www.unicef.org/progressforchildren/2007n6/index_41847.htm.Circumcision was not a tradition in all parts of Guinea. Members of the Baga nation,for example, began to practice FGM in the 1930s. “Many members of the Baga tribe beganto adopt Islam. They built mosques and the villagers were terrorized by fear because humansacrifices were needed in order to christen these new mosques. They began to circumcise littlegirls at this time, which they had never done in the past. To this day the older women continuethis secret practice in the bush.”Moving away from this tragic face of Africa and returning back to the book Save Him,White Doctor!, the consequences of the unequal standing of women in many African countriestake a range of other forms in addition to the mutilation of female genitalia. DoctorChrappová said that for instance: “Mothers would breastfeed the children as long as thefather demanded... The length of such nursing was used to determine what wife was thefavourite. A woman could also not be touched while nursing. Supposedly, she would lose hermilk. Older wives usually nursed for a long period of time... Small children up to six years of193 The tip of the iceberg among these projects are the planned construction of a 7.5 kilometre-long motorwaytunnel from Višňové to Dubná Skala, which could be easily replaced by a 400 m-long tunnel andthe route of the D3 motorway to Poland along the so-called Kysuce route along which fewer cars travelthan between two larger Slovak villages. The embezzlement (colloquially referred to as “tunnelling” inSlovakia) of public and European funds on both cases could reach into the hundreds of millions of Euros.215