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We are grasping for "why aren't more Africans dying" explanations, but maybe the better question is why are so many people in the US and Europe (and Brazil) dying? I'll

I've written this in a paywalled thing but in the context of the debate on the TL today: the generational marker for millenials in Africa is not avocado toast or

I've had a lot of responses to this tweet and I want to say a few things. One, you can read about the experiences of women trying to enter politics

People forget that Africa gets a fraction of the global intercontinental travel traffic. It's unlikely that we are miraculously immune to COVID-19. More likely that infected people are less likely

There is a crisis in funding for shelters for women in Kenya. Domestic violence is the most pervasive form of violence in this country- according to one DHS at least

Let me clarify why I said this from the beginning. In a past life I worked in development and in 2012, I was in Haiti just after the earthquake and

"The case in point is Ebola in West Africa in 2014. Epidemiological models, which accurately charted the early, exponential growth phase of the epidemic, failed to predict its rapid decline."

Some editors have asked me to write a "why Africa will fail to control the Coronavirus" article. I've so far declined because a) I just don't know and b) public