Decolonizing Ebola Rhetorics Following the 2013-2016 West African
Ebola Outbreak defends the position that, despite the supposed
"lessons" that have been learned about the spread of Ebola Virus
Disease (EVD) after the 2013-2016 West African Ebola outbreak,
there remains a need to "decolonize" the rhetorics of Ebola
prevention and containment. The author asserts that the failure of
governments, aid organizations, and global media to confront the
structural and material legacies of colonialism in West Africa will
prevent global communities from adequately dealing with sporadic
Ebola outbreaks. Central to the book's argument is that far too
many communities in the "global North" are unwilling to spend the
hundreds of billions of dollars that are needed for the prevention
of endemic and epidemic diseases in the "global South." Instead of
coping with the impoverished legacies of colonialism, organizations
like the World Health Organization support the use of small groups
of "Ebola hunters" who swoop down during crises and put out EVD
outbreaks using emergency health techniques. The author
demonstrates how Western-oriented ways of dealing with EVD have
made it difficult to convince West African populations-wary of
emergency interventions after a long history of colonial medical
experimentation in Africa-that those in the West truly care about
the prevention of the next Ebola outbreak. Decolonizing Ebola
Rhetorics ultimately argues that as long as global journalists and
elite public health officials continue to blame bats, bushmeat, or
indigenous burial practices for the spread of Ebola, the necessary
decolonization of Ebola rhetorics will be forestalled. The author
concludes the book by offering critiques of the real lessons that
are learned by those who try to securitize or military Ebola
containment efforts.
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