If you’ve ever lived in or visited Africa, you know that cheap advertising like subway posters, highway billboards, wall murals are popular as a form of advertising for products such as cosmetics, baby formula and soft drinks. The tradition is now taking a serious turn in Tanzania. Iva Skoch from globalspost reports that the wall murals are now becoming more provocative, to say the least, all in an attempt to spur up sex education and curb HIV/AIDS.
The fight is such intense that nothing is considered a taboo. A walk through Dar Es Salaam will reveal streets lined with colorful ads that leave nothing to imagination. The message targets condom use, masturbation, teen pregnancy and female genital mutilation.
About 6% of Tanzanian population have HIV/AIDS, while 40 percent of 18-year-old girls are already mothers or currently pregnant.
Officials admit that even though some of the pictures are racy, they are working, and that is what matters.
Like malaria, HIV is taking lives of the future generation in most African countries at a rate that is threatening. Shall we complain about the racy wall murals that according to statistics are working? I won’t.
If it's working, who shold complain? In fact we see more open b#$%& on TV here than you see on the street in afrinca. even at the grocery store check out, can you count the number of uncovered b*&^% you see b4 you checkou?