Africa is a weird place. Lack of education and poverty and basically being screwed over by the whole industrialized world. Witch doctors, sorcery, superstition. My go-to example: there is a widespread belief that if you get AIDS, you should have sex with a virgin girl and it will go away. There is also a widespread belief that condoms are witch doctor voodoo evil that is spread by white men and you should avoid the use of condoms at all costs. So people don't wear condoms, they get AIDS, they then have unprotected sex with a virgin girl (often underaged) and spread the disease further in a misguided attempt to cure themselves. This makes no sense from our perspective, but these are widespread beliefs in Africa and have led to some really alarmingly high rates of infection of AIDS and other STIs.