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Health workers stand in a new Ebola treatment center during a visit of WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in Bunia, northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, on May 31, 2026. [AFP]
The Ebola conversation in Kenya is not just a medical debate. It is a matter of ethics and African sovereignty in global politics. It speaks to human dignity, and constitutional accountability in an African state.
But it is also about omnivorous eating habits within the governing classes of Africa, and incapacity for disgrace in high Africa’s high places. So yes, it is about opening up Kenya to untold health risks. But it is also significantly about leadership that will do anything for the whiff of money.
The High Court has of course temporarily suspended quarantining of American Ebola suspected cases in Kenya. Yet the magnitude of the matter dictates that the discourse must continue. The central moral question is simple. The United States rejects her own citizens, suspected to be Ebola carriers. They are a huge health hazard that cannot be admitted to America. Then consider Kenya eagerly signalling America, saying, “Just give us money and bring that Ebola this way!”
