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Number of words: 89<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With no proper sanitation, Kibera\u2019s primary means of disposing of human waste is what the slum-dwellers wryly refer to as \u2018flying toilets\u2019: the practice of defecating into a plastic bag, then flinging it as far from your own home as possible. Flying toilets add diarrhoea and typhoid fever to the neighbourhood\u2019s catalogue of woes, which also includes the fact that, according to some estimates, 20 per cent of the population is infected with HIV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excerpted from \u2018The Antidote \u2013 Happiness for People who can\u2019t stand positive thinking\u2019 by Oliver Burkeman<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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