On the Cover: In Greek mythology, Ganymede is a young boy and described as the most beautiful of mortals. Zeus, king of the Gods, fell in love with Ganymede's thighs and came down in the form of an eagle to carry Ganymede to Mount Olympus to let him serve as cup-bearer to the gods. The myth of Ganymede has been seen as a symbol of male homoerotic love, or pederasty, the relationship between an ...

A teacher by profession, Yakubu has for the past 15 years been a volunteer for the Ghana Guinea Worm Eradication Programme, and one of the biggest obstacles he has had to overcome is the entrenched belief that attributes guinea-worm disease to the will of the gods or witchcraft. “It took some time before I was able to erase these gods, curses and superstitions from their minds,” Yakubu says. Li...