Beka’s Reviews > Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection > Status Update

"Imagining someone as more than human does much the same work as imagining them as less than human."

"Colonial infrastructure was not built to strengthen communities. It was built to deplete them."

"The Sierra Leone physician Bailor Barrie once told me, 'if you want to understand why Sierra Leone is poor, you must look at a map of our railroads.' So I did. The railroads, built during Colonial rule, did not connect people to each other; they connected the mineral-rich areas of Sierra Leone to the coast of SL where those minerals could be exported. The British empire was in the business of resource extraction."

"Despite now technically having independence, many of the most valuable assets in Sierra Leone were, and still are, foreign-owned.
Even though their economy has grown, and life expectancy has risen, they remain deeply impoverished."

I wonder why😩

"As a friend once told me:
Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past."