“When considering grand plans for effective communicable disease control in this time of Ebola peril, malaria continues to kill nearly a million people a year world-wide, and by far the single most reliable protection against malaria is to sleep under a mosquito net, but one of the major impediments to this basic and effective malaria control is that many people, regardless of education level or country of origin, in malaria endemic zones don't install and use one, not that they can't get one, but because they don't think the mosquito net 'looks nice.” Human NatureAfricaMalariaEbolaDisease Prevention Author:T.K. Naliaka
“Malnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth, one for the lack of food, the other for the lack of knowledge of food.” KnowledgeFoodAfricaMalnutrition Author:T.K. Naliaka
“If people's night fears of sorcery - which negatively influences their decision to use mosquito nets - fail to impress the outsider, the brute everyday reality remains; in a number of rural African villages it is still much too common for very real hyenas to snatch people, especially children, out of their own homes as they lie sleeping at night, because of the lack of a good front door.” SecurityAfricaConstraintsPublic HealthMalariaBehaviorsHyenasBehavioral ChangeMalaria EradicationVillagesPredationMosquito Net Author:T.K. Naliaka
“Even a little practical working familiarity with cattle goes a long way in Africa, but how many international relations studies include this?” AfricaInternational RelationsCattle Author:T.K. Naliaka
“Les pelles ne sont pas élégantes, certes, mais elles ont tout de même réussi a libérer des communautés entières du paludisme durant les 5 000 derniers ans.” AfricaPublic HealthShovelsMalariaDisease ControlEradicationAfriqueVector ControlLes PellesPaludisme Author:T.K. Naliaka
“Will 2015 ever be noted as the year Ebola was decisively downgraded from a lurid horror meme to just one of many commonly treatable diseases?” SuccessIronyAfricaEpidemicsPublic HealthEbolaMedical TreatmentLessons LearnedMedical ResearchDisease Control2015 Author:T.K. Naliaka
“Over a century now after Dr. William Gorgas wiped Yellow Fever out of Havana and Panama, and by that out of an entire continent, and more than half a century after Fred Lowe Soper led the eradication of Anopheles gambiae out of Northeast Brazil, their names are unknown, their carefully-detailed, boots-on-the-ground methods that they described in detail to leave expressly for generations to study and learn from to apply to malaria - and specifically they both had the desire for the destruction of malaria in Africa on their minds - is unread. The mistakes they warned about, the assumptions that they discovered to be useless and ineffectual in the field against disease-bearing mosquitoes are repeated today, while what Gorgas and Soper found to be effective and efficient in real-life conditions are routinely ignored or unknown, avoidable errors blithely doomed to be repeated thanks to modern ignorance of their incredibly important and transformative historical successes in public health. In the battles against malaria, to be ignorant of Gorgas’ and Soper's work in eradicating the mosquito that carries it is to be hobbled by the lack of hard-earned field knowledge, practical and effective discoveries that remain completely relevant and critical to success in eradicating malaria today.” SuccessLeadershipAfricaPublic HealthMosquitoesMalariaDisease ControlMalaria EradicationAnopheles GambiaeWilliam Crawford GorgasFred Lowe Soper Author:T.K. Naliaka
“Africa is a huge continent; it would take several lifetimes of thousands of researchers testing in hundreds of languages to collect a valid sample of anything, especially IQ. Most Africans do their schooling in a second language, not their mother tongue. How many people would accept to be tested for their IQ level not in their primary language?” EducationIntelligenceAfricaTestingIqMultilingual Author:T.K. Naliaka
“Shovels aren't very glamorous, but they've been liberating entire communities from malaria for the past 5,000 years.” AfricaPublic HealthMalariaDisease PreventionMalaria EradicationVector Control Author:T.K. Naliaka
“It’s not that easy living with malaria. The reality of the high annual death toll should make that very obvious.” AfricaPublic HealthMalariaDisease ControlMalaria EradicationAnopheles Gambiae Author:T.K. Naliaka
“Many ‘experts’ don’t possess the imagination or vision or any of the logistical expertise required to achieve malaria eradication. Their opinions shouldn’t be allowed to hold back men and women who do possess these qualities from achieving the ‘impossible.” SuccessLeadershipSuccess QuotesAfricaExpertisePublic HealthLogisticsMalaria EradicationSkill Sets Author:T.K. Naliaka
“To witness the awe of human beings delighting in their own hands forming the written word was humbling and he understood it profoundly at that moment watching those two, with the ancient land around them, in their traditional robes and the resting camels by their campfire, intently regarding writing with such immense respect … that illiteracy meant subsistence, while literacy meant human advancement, the base on which higher achievements and accomplishments of great civilizations could be built.” AfricaLiteracyAdventure FictionSahelYouth FictionThe Decaturs Series Author:T.K. Naliaka
“What an interesting contrast between us, even just in the consideration of one woman. Your complete disregard for her will ironically be your destruction, while my regard for her will be my triumph over you.” FictionAdventureAfricaAdventure FictionSahelAdventure RomanceClassic StyleThe Decaturs SeriesThe Decaturs Book:Iron Mixed with Sand Salt without Memory Source: Iron Mixed with Sand Salt without Memory
“Huh. What a dope! Wait till Mom hears about this. He's so in trouble now. You know how crazy she gets about malaria.” AfricaMotheringMalariaAction AdventureSahel Book:A Difficult Damsel to Rescue Source: A Difficult Damsel to Rescue
“Though they were not familiar with the expression,to paraphrase the saying, when any country in the Sahel sneezes, the rest of the region catches pneumonia, the men there would have clicked their tongues and ruefully nodded their heads that 'woolayi' this was the truth.” AfricaAction AdventureSahel Book:Between Dunes and Hard Places Source: Between Dunes and Hard Places
“If one could speak two languages well and was raised on tea and baguettes for breakfast,in places where the most mundane daily business on the street is conducted in four languages, where horse carts park at cyber cafes, where would one go? Where could one go? Why,with a smile and a handshake, very far, indeed!” AfricaCaptivesFathers And SonsAdventure Fiction Author:T.K. Naliaka