Graduate Zandile Ngubane’s Master of Arts in Ethics thesis is a critical ethical analysis of African traditional beliefs about people living with albinism. 
Ngubane argued that people living with albinism are socially excluded in some African traditional communities because they are not considered human beings. 
In her paper she says Albinism seems to be a two-edge sword: on the one hand, it is believed that people with albinism are born with special powers that can bring wealth, On the other hand, people living with albinism are believed to bring bad luck and that having relations with them will cause ill-fortune.
Her study highlights beliefs and perceptions, which view people with albinism as ghosts; that having sexual intercourse with a person living with albinism can cure HIV and AIDS, and that body parts of people living with albinism can make umuthi.