T.K. Naliaka

Quotes

• “If people's night fears of sorcery - which negatively influences their decision to use mosquito nets - fail to impress t...”
• “Africa is a huge continent; it would take several lifetimes of thousands of researchers testing in hundreds of languages...”
• “If one could speak two languages well and was raised on tea and baguettes for breakfast,in places where the most mundane...”
• “If it is considered speaking knowledgeably about malaria by having spent a few weeks traveling into malaria endemic zone...”
• “Though they were not familiar with the expression,to paraphrase the saying, when any country in the Sahel sneezes, the r...”
• “Many ‘experts’ don’t possess the imagination or vision or any of the logistical expertise required to achieve malaria er...”
• “To paraphrase Lucretius, there's nothing more useful than to watch a man or woman in times of contagious deadly disease ...”
• “Any academic skill is quickly achievable if charged with clear purpose and an appeal to enthusiastic self-interest. Tarz...”
• “What an interesting contrast between us, even just in the consideration of one woman. Your complete disregard for her wi...”
• “Green meant water, green patches meant farmers and farmers meant agriculture. Agriculture meant food to eat and food to ...”
• “If no one knew them well enough to trust them, then no one was going to speak with them, then they would never get the i...”
• “Eradicating mosquitoes is a means to an end. An uninfected mosquito is harmless to humans - just a nuisance. An infected...”
• “Will 2015 ever be noted as the year Ebola was decisively downgraded from a lurid horror meme to just one of many commonl...”
• “Even a little practical working familiarity with cattle goes a long way in Africa, but how many international relations ...”
• “Despite 4,000 years of proven usefulness, quarantines seem to be to modern international public health experts as garlic...”
• “Transparency is critical in public health and epidemics laypeople become either effective force-multipliers or stubborn ...”
• “Malnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth, one for the lack of food, the other for the lack of knowledge of ...”
• “Shovels aren't very glamorous, but they've been liberating entire communities from malaria for the past 5,000 years.”
• “Huh. What a dope! Wait till Mom hears about this. He's so in trouble now. You know how crazy she gets about malaria.”
• “It’s not that easy living with malaria. The reality of the high annual death toll should make that very obvious.”
• “Most people around here prefer undead drivers, so I never get a chance to make any money on steady contracts.”
• “The wolves of the world have no pity for the confused, the scattered, the lost or the weak.”
• “If rhetoric study was the military, grammar teachers would be the drill sergeants.”
• “If literacy was natural, the word ‘illiteracy’ would not exist.”
• “Somehow your heart still knows me.”