'I Am a Liberian, Not a Virus!'
"There's a phrase that was popular in the 1990s, 'driving while black', which African-Americans coined in the U.S. to expose the insidiousness of racial profiling. The 21st century version of that phrase should be 'traveling while Liberian... or Guinean, or Sierra Leonean' in the age of Ebola", writes Robtel Pailey, a Liberian academic, activist and author based at the University of London.
A security guard doing temperature check.
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Liberia:
Min. Kpadeh Abhors Stigmatizing Liberians Over Ebola Virus
Heritage, 30 October 2014
Deputy Information Minister for Technical Services, Robert Kpadeh, has said Liberians resent being stigmatized over the Ebola epidemic and called on people, at home and abroad,… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Ebola - How Delta Is Keeping It At Bay
Independent (Lagos), 3 October 2014
When the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) was first reported in Nigeria and the death of the 'importer', Liberian Patrick Sawyer, as well as the death in quick succession of… Read more »
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Nigeria:
How Patrick Sawyer Infected Us With Ebola, Doctors Who Treated Liberian-American Speak
Premium Times, 19 September 2014
The survivors of the Ebola Virus Disease have narrated their experiences, speaking of the trauma they went through and how Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American who brought the… Read more »
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West Africa:
Why Ebola Travel Bans Are Misguided
Fahamu, 11 September 2014
It is clear that official African solidarity ends at the doorstep of self-interest. The paranoid policies of countries that have imposed travel bans to the countries hit by the… Read more »
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West Africa:
AU Opposes Ebola Travel Bans
NEWS, 10 September 2014
The African Union has called on its member states to urgently lift all travel bans imposed on countries affected by the Ebola outbreak in Africa. Read more »
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Liberia:
Senegal Raises Stakes Over Ebola Transporters
FrontPageAfrica, 3 September 2014
Patrick Sawyer is long gone, but the ricochet effect of his death from the deadly Ebola virus and his now infamous journey to Lagos, is still being debated around the world. Read more »
InFocus
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In addition to other instances reported elsewhere, a 26-year-old Guinean woman was allegedly beaten by a group of teenagers in Rome after they accused her of having the deadly ... Read more »
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Some health workers at Ebola treatment centers in Liberia are complaining that they are being stigmatized by community members because of their line of work. Read more »
