Editing Infanticide (section)

===Africa===
In some [[Africa]]n societies some neonates were killed because of beliefs in evil omens or because they were considered unlucky. Twins were usually put to death in Arebo; as well as by the [[Nama people]] of [[South West Africa]]; in the [[Lake Victoria|Lake Victoria Nyanza]] region; by the [[Tswana people|Tswana]] in [[Portuguese East Africa]]; in some parts of [[Igboland]], [[Nigeria]] twins were sometimes abandoned in a forest at birth (as depicted in ''[[Things Fall Apart]]''), oftentimes one twin was killed or hidden by midwives of wealthier mothers; and by the [[ǃKung people]] of the [[Kalahari Desert]].<ref name="Hardness"/>{{rp|160–61}}

The [[Kikuyu people|Kikuyu]], [[Kenya]]'s most populous ethnic group, practiced ritual killing of twins.<ref>{{Cite book | last = LeVine| first = Sarah and Robert LeVine| contribution = Child abuse and neglect in Sub-Saharan Africa| editor-last = Korbin| editor-first = Jill| title = Child Abuse and Neglect| page = 39| publisher = [[University of California Press]]| place = Berkeley| year = 1981}}</ref> Infanticide is rooted in the old traditions and beliefs prevailing all over Kenya. A survey conducted by [[Disability Rights International]] found that 45% of women interviewed by them in Kenya were pressured to kill their children born with disabilities. The pressure is much higher in the rural areas, with every two mothers out of three being forced to kill their disabled child.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45670750|title=Infanticide in Kenya: 'I was told to kill my disabled baby'|work=BBC News|access-date=27 September 2018|date=2018-09-27|last1=Soy|first1=Anne|archive-date=10 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190610225502/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45670750|url-status=live}}</ref>