I was chatting with a colleague of mine about the time when Colombia was overrun with violence and wondered how the population survived through it all (she lived in Colombia at the time when Pablo Escobar ran amok in the region). We then broached the issue of life expectancy and i then realized they had at least 25 years on us in Nigeria. The thing worry me sotay i checked and found out that sub Saharan Africa lagged behind everyone else. What is responsible for this?

If we are already dying this early, we might as well add a cause to it shey (mba, na we no wan die - me sef join no wan die?)


Please give your well researched reasons- I think we the people would be able to give better answers than most journals written by folks just trying to get their PhD's and research papers.

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