In 1978, Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice was elected as Pope John Paul I.
Musa says many of his albino friends fled their rural homes after being chased out by locals.
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Albino wallabies are believed to be extremely rare and can change hands for hundreds of pounds.
On the very odd occasion an albino will be born and we've got that very odd occasion.
His albino skin (in Africa, albinos are widely considered bad luck) and poor eyesight made him an outcast.
The male albino ferret has been named Kon-Tiki after a famous 1940s raft expedition across the Pacific Ocean.
The zoo believes the albino red-necked wallaby, which will grow white fur, is a descendant of one given to the Queen.
But facing life as an albino in Africa, Keita decided early on that he was going to make his own rules.
The whole thing ends with a pool full of baby albino crocodiles.
Nyerere was clearly being targeted for being albino - but in every other respect he was an accepted part of his community.
Government officials have said they are educating police officers to help address albino killings, but admit it is hard to quell the attacks.
Unlike normal buffalos that are dark brown in appearance, the albino buffalo is almost beige and easily stands out from the rest of the herd.
When someone started in on his experience chasing albino alligators through the New York sewers, I decided it was time to stagger off to bed.
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Critics have said authorities should go after albino killers more aggressively.
Albino individuals of adult frogs, toads and newts are considered to be very rare and cases of multiple albinistic individuals in a breeding population are even rarer.
Mali's best-known singer, Salif Keita, is an albino and, as such, generally viewed with condescension if not superstition and fear in much of Africa.
"My agenda shall be to ask the government to educate the society on the misconceptions that one could get rich quickly merely by possessing albino parts, " he said.
Keen to make a film documenting the plight of this group of people, Freeland headed to Tanzania, the country reported to have one of the biggest albino populations in the world.
Dr Charles Musyoki, a senior wildlife official, told the BBC that albino animals wre very rare and in the past only an albino zebra had been spotted in a Kenyan park.
Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania (CNN) -- Tanzania's first elected albino lawmaker says his win is a major victory for the embattled minorities who are targeted for body parts believed to have special powers.
"It is a thriving business ... witchdoctors are asking business people to bring the body parts of albinos, who are not considered human beings, " said Franck Alphonse, director of the Tanzania Albino Center.
The albino condition, caused by a lack of colouring pigments in the skin, can lead to the animal being susceptible to sunburn, but the zoo said its wallaby enclosure had lots of shade and it should lead a "normal life".
As Flynn, Bridges acts very beatnik Zen, like a weary cyber version of the Dude, and Michael Sheen is on hand as a sinister nightclub impresario who primps and soft-shoes like an albino Davy Jones wearing David Bowie's Aladdin Sane shag.
Newly enamored of the country since producing documentary "Albino United" --- about an albino football team in Tanzania -- in 2010, Broomfield is shooting his next feature film in the city of Mwanza on the shore of Lake Victoria in the north-west of the country.
"It's been in the pouch for a little while now and we've been able to see it wriggling around, but when it popped its head out for the first time we got a bit of a shock - we didn't really expect it to be an albino, " said Ms Simmons.
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