In our 3rd and final episode in this small series on misconceptions, we dive into a few more common misconceptions we’ve heard about Africa and our lives in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, including:

• Infrastructure: clean running water, electricity, roads, etc.

• Do you feel safe there?

• Malaria is scary!

• Can you get good healthcare?

Note: Liz mentioned some fuzzy statistics about twins in Africa during this episode. Here is the real information:

• 41% of the world's twins come from Africa while only 13% of the world's entire population is in Africa

• 20 of every 1,000 births are twins (compared to 12 of 1,000 in Europe and 7 of 1,000 in of Asia).

Source: Gilles Pison. Nearly half of the world’s twins are born in Africa. Population et sociétés, 2000, 360, pp.1-4. hal-02527479, https://hal.science/hal-02527479/document#:~:text=The%20proportion%20of%20identical%20twins,of%20the%20world's%20babies.

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