General News of Thursday, 1 September 2016Source: Starrfmonline.comDon’t call us ‘ofiri djato’ - AlbinosFile photoPeople living with Albinism in Ghana have called on Ghanaians to desist from calling them ‘Ofiri Djato’, a local name for albinos in many Ghanaian societies. According to the chairman of people living with albinism, Jonathan York, the name is demeaning and makes mockery of their status. “The name ‘Ofiri’ we don’t like it because we don’t know which tribe uses that name in Ghana. “When you see a blind man, you don’t call him blind man so why do you call us ‘Ofiri’? Melanin is a natural substance in the body that gives colour to the human hair, skin, and iris of the eye.

Source: GhanaWeb September 01, 2016 11:48 UTC