My Husband Abandoned Me For Giving Birth To Albinos, A Mother Sadly Narrates Her Experience

My Husband Abandoned Me For Giving Birth To Albinos, A Mother Sadly Narrates Her Experience

In most communities around the world, albinism is hardly understood. Myths and misconceptions surround the condition. However, this is amplified in the Sub- Saharan Africa largely because the light skin tone of persons with albinism stands out sharply in the communities whose members are predominantly dark-skinned.

Meet Vestine's first daughter and the only member in her family, except for her mother and father, who were born with skin melanin. For the first daughter when the time was right, she got married but her marriage was not to last as her husband chased her away after giving birth albino.

According to the man, such a thing never happens in their family and they never produce such creatures. She was then forced to move back and live with her mother who has also been a subject of ridicule because she too gave birth to several albinos except for her, the firstborn.

For Vestine however, the husband never left or chased her away. The husband was there e telling him that his toparent'sparent'shave albino. Her parent's efforts to persuade the husband hit a dead end as the man did not seem concerned.Persons with albinism in many parts of Africa are meated because they lack melanin pigment or due to superstition. People with albinism always need optical aid to enhance their vision. Furthermore, they have to protect against sun exposure so as to prevent premature skin ageing or skin cancer.