Nancy Akoth is four months pregnant and like many women in her state has strange cravings. Some women eat coal, gherkins or soap but Akoth craves soft stones, known in Kenya, where she lives, as ‘odowa’. “I just have this urge to eat these stones. I do very crazy things. I would even wake up ...
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