Why Is Organ Donation Taboo for Many Africans?

February 10, 2015

(BBC) – Mr Ngure wa Mwachofi, an expert in social behaviour and communication, says religious and cultural beliefs are to blame for the negative attitude towards organ donation. “Culture is what people have been conditioned to do from the time they were born and if they are told that certain things are not okay then they believe so,” he tells me.