When Poverty Puts a Price on the Human Body: The Disturbing Rise of Kidney-for-Capital Desperation Among Nigerian Youths
What happens when a young man’s biggest obstacle to becoming self-employed is not lack of skills, willingness to work or business ideas, but the absence of start-up capital? For some vulnerable Nigerians, the answer appears to be becoming increasingly disturbing: turning to the human body itself as a source of quick money. Reports of young…