Peculiarities of attitude to left- handed people in some African countries

Abstract

Our work is dedicated to sinistrality study some applied aspects as well as peculiarities of attitude to left-handedness in some African countries. The authors pay attention to the question and problem of forced or hidden sinistrality, stigmatization of left hand free usage for eating, greeting and all everyday activity characteristic for African, islamic and hinduistic countries because of their cultural- religious distinguishing features. Also the authors emphasize to essentiality of additional multi-faceted study of sinistrality as a phenomenon because of left-handers specific weight increase in a human population, the so called “left diseases”, “a syndrome of left-hander”. Researches must be performed both by theoreticians and the representatives of Biology and Medicine applied branches.