Reading List: Véronique Tadjo
To address a difficult and traumatic subject like Ebola, the writer Véronique Tadjo turned to oral literature for inspiration.
To address a difficult and traumatic subject like Ebola, the writer Véronique Tadjo turned to oral literature for inspiration.
Recalling its Ebola hysteria would help the US better confront COVID-19.
African health workers ask for decent work and a strong, public health care system—not applause.
The coronavirus COVID-19, just like Ebola, reminds us what happens when crisis ignite deep-rooted stereotypes. Yet viruses, or any disease for that matter, do not see color. Nor do they recognize states borders and ethnic enclaves.
Sierra Leoneans take center stage as storytellers and active witnesses in a new documentary about the Ebola outbreak.
Has migration policy reckoned with epidemics like Ebola?
In the past year, Robtel Neajai Pailey has seen her Liberian passport scrutinized more intently than ever before.
Will the new African Centers for Disease Control really be an African CDC?
The AU seeks an increased role in emergencies like the Ebola crisis in West and Central Africa and the civil war in South Sudan.
An open letter addressed to Jeff Fager, Executive Producer of the American TV news program, 60 Minutes, over its reporting of Africa and Africans.
Achille Mbembe on how the Ebola Crisis exposed Africa’s dependency on the West.
A virus transmitted by a mosquito bite could become misinformed panic in Latin America that Ebola was in the United States.
Making sure we give credit where it’s due to those on the frontline during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Was it ever in doubt that the first African American president of the United States would wish to crown his legacy by normalizing relations with the most African island in the Americas?
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The United States lives in a state of constant fear. Currently, Ebola is to blame. The
Bob Geldof doesn't need to do a #BandAid30 for Ebola. African musicians made a song already.
A South African doctor working for MSF writes about her experience working in the Ebola zone in Sierra Leone.
Why is the conversation in New York about what the government will do about an epidemic, while for West Africa many look instinctively to NGOs?
While health professionals are crucial frontline responders, the Ebola crisis is indeed too important to be left to medical personnel.