Food & Health

“Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis

Before the onset of the Ebola crisis, there were many things about the food habits of Ghanaians that I knew little about. I have always seen bats as a mere nuisance.

The 2014 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ two-day summit hosted by China, took place against the backdrop of the spread of the Ebola epidemic, which has devastated a number of West African countries.

Makerere University started in 1922 and in a space of less than eight years from now it will be celebrating 100 years of existence. Makerere is the oldest and largest university in East Africa and arguably in the entire Great Lakes Region.

On 20 October 2014, the World Health Organization officially declared Africa's most populous country ‘Ebola free’, 42 days after the last case was confirmed in Nigeria.

There are instances when I agree with the ideals, principles and vision of pan-African activists that include, but are not limited to, the late Libyan strongman Muammar Gadhafi, former South African president Thabo Mbeki, and Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe on African renaissance.

At the time of writing this article, 29 October , the official death toll from the Ebola epidemic, mostly in part of West Africa (Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia), is 4,922. The actual death toll may be substantially higher as many people are being sent home to die.

The biggest credibility crisis ever to hit South Africa’s independent media unfolded last week.

Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, the countries most affected by the outbreak of Ebola virus are geographically far from Kenya, but to the countries we depend on for tourists, Ebola is in Africa and so is Kenya.

Currently, narrating human tragedy may sound more like fiction, and perhaps fiction may have more humanity.