COVID-19 is reminding us that global health has long operated a model in which Africans are treated as subjects of a quasi-philanthropic complex that, in turn, feeds one of the largest industries in the world.
Amid the cacophony of ‘wake-up calls’ triggered by COVID-19, the colonial dynamics of global health have particularly struck a nerve on the African continent. These concerns are not new, simply underscored in acute ways that make them difficult to deny or ignore. The pandemic is rem