After some tests, my doctor sat me down in his consultation room and asked me if I had any suspicions what this might be. I guessed correctly on the first try, it was dengue fever. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
The first time I read about the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine was as a youth, but I had enough opinions by then that I suspected foul play.
Wasn’t this yet another colonial bullshit-science institution designed to other non-Europeans and contribute to the ceaseless humiliation and exploitation of Africans in particular? Why couldn’t medicine just be medicine for all places and people?