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Hypocrisy of America’s experimental Ebola drug

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  • TWENEBOAH 9 years ago

    WHY DO THEY HAVE TO SPEND THEIR MONEY EFFORT AND TIME TO DEVELOP A VACCINE AND OTHER MEDICATION AND THEN HAND IT OVER FOR FREE TO AFRICANS?NOW THAT SHOULD BE THE ARTICLE AND QUESTION BEEN ASKED.WHY ARE WE SITTING THERE WAITIN ...
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  • African Patriotism 9 years ago

    Africans are to open and trustworthy of foreigners.Africans don't seem to understand the history of Europeans when it comes to the issue of genocide. Agencies comes to African countries and mingle freely among the people with ...
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  • Onipa49 9 years ago

    I could not have put it any better. This is exactly what I was thinking about while reading the article. No wonder some bigots in the west think we blacks may be genetically of a different intellectual species. We must learn ...
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  • Tekonline.org 9 years ago

    You pulled the words right out of my mouth!
    Indeed, who should conduct the research for the vaccine and effective drugs? Is that a priority in our lifestyle as Africans -- compared to luxury cars for instance? How do African ...
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  • Akadu Mensema 9 years ago

    The advance countries spend their time and money to produce scientific researchers (you can call them men of Satan) to find preventive and curative medicine to heal them. The rates at which we create churches and produce men ...
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  • Ms. Eshun 9 years ago

    Alas! Someone is speaking up. Is there a reason Black Africans cant't do anything on their own and continuously rely on the West for everything? We have minds so let's use it, damn it!

  • Famu 9 years ago

    Where are our scientists? China man can do everything by himself. These stupid Africa leaders make me sick all the time. Africans only eat and sleep no brains to think. Why?

  • Kwabena Danso,Gbawe-Accra 9 years ago

    I like you

  • VICKY LEE BENTON 9 years ago

    I BELIEVE THIS IBOLA IS AN INVENTED DESIESE. ITS BEEN DISCOVERED IN THE EARLY 70' S IN AFRICA. THE VIRUS ALSO WAS SPOTTED IN THE U.S. IN THE EARLY 80' S
    ACCORDING TO THE NEWS MEDIA( C.N.N.)
    SO WHY IS IT SPREADING IN THE M ...
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  • Kofi 9 years ago

    Such comments make Africans look stupid. What has Africa been doing about Ebola since it first appeared in Zaire? Blaming someone is not the solution. Maybe we should blame the white man for the cholera outbreak in Accra as w ...
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  • Tekonline.org 9 years ago

    "What has Africa been doing about Ebola since it first appeared in Zaire?"

    Since the virus surfaced in 1976, the West has been relentlessly studying the virus. Look at the amount of scientific details so far accumulated:
    ...
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  • CriticalThinking 9 years ago

    The drug administered to the Americans is an experimental drug. It hadn't undergone human trials. There was/is no guarantee that the drug would work correctly, or that it wouldn't have serious side effects.

    If this drug ha ...
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  • Obibini 9 years ago

    who wrote this rubbish.....and why don't (we)Africans do their own research.Waste of space. The title should have read."Sad Africa does not have drugs to cure their people"

  • clement 9 years ago

    we always criticize white men for our problems, so why not do it ourselves?

  • Kofi 9 years ago

    Ebola has only been occurring in Africa. What prevents Africans from taking the lead in finding a cure instead of waiting for a far away California company to do that. If I were you, I would just keep quiet and blame our own ...
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  • Tekonline.org 9 years ago

    We don't even invest in RESEARCH for the stuff we really love: fancy cars, the latest smartphones, gadgets for musical entertainment,etc.

  • Afr Amer ThinkTanker 9 years ago

    Africa needs 24/7 research teams in every African country! But whom will pay the wages of 3 shifts of researchers daily??? Africans can not overcome their superstitions and non-trust of each other within their own countries ( ...
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  • KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON 9 years ago

    America owes Africa something considering that it is africans who were exported to America as slaves to kick-start America's rapid economic advancement.If America and its allies will stop destabilising Africa and stop using a ...
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  • Dukegreat 9 years ago

    Must we Africans always wait for the White man to solve our problems? we are being terrorized by this deadly Ebola virus and we seat down unconcerned. What at all is our doctors good at? Is it striking for increased salaries ...
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  • The White House 9 years ago

    Africa should find their own cure and stop sitting there waiting for the white man to make a drug for them. What is the essence of the degree holders: pharmacists and doctors in your country? Blame yourselves and your governm ...
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  • James Naru 9 years ago

    It is not the responsibility of the Americans to develop drugs for us. We Africans should be developing our own drugs. Reason being that the disease is rather prevalent in Africa

  • don holy 9 years ago

    Ebola was cultured by this same Americans ,,
    for them they HV treated their own people and had left our people dying.

  • Amassey 9 years ago

    Inkrumah did well to fight for independence but he forgot the fact that not all African leaders were patriotic .It is now clear that Africans can not manage their own affairs even when they try it is not successful , we shoul ...
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  • Mensah 9 years ago

    blame America for your own stupidity and failure, ofui like you

  • Naa 9 years ago

    It's Africans leaders who are hypocrite s, instead of them funding things like Ebola drug, they use it to buy houses for their girlfriends.

  • Adwoa 9 years ago

    Why is it that you Africans can't develop any vacine to combat your Ebola. Always looking up to the Whiteman for solutions. I wish Ebola will wipe out all Africans so that the whiteman can claim the African continent and deve ...
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  • Afr Amer ThinkTanker 9 years ago

    Adwoa, "develop" is a word many can describe differently.
    THINK!
    The white boy has fancy cars that can race up to 205 miles per hour.
    The black man, when in his own mind, can lean on a wall and come out on the other side o ...
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  • Blackman 9 years ago

    As if you yourself are not an african. Pray that it doesnt reach your doorstep first.

  • Kwame USA 9 years ago

    The Africans leaders who chop our monies should invest in research

  • Kojo Azemeti 9 years ago

    Has the writer ever heard of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment whereby the American Government sponsored the injection of poisonous chemicals into the veins of Black Americans in order to use them as guinea pigs for experiment ...
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  • Sefadzi 9 years ago

    Theophilus, you write a nice piece with the view to blame another country for the lack of vision and dedication on the part of our scientist? With all the research facilities and resources that abound in Africa, why haven't w ...
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  • AGATAPORE (SANDEMA) 9 years ago

    If our Presidents loot our money for themselves and their families, vote ex-gratia of $50,000.00 not cedis to MPs, buy $120,000.00 Toyota land cruisers for over 200 ministers, free petrol for them ,paid drivers for them, char ...
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  • Ayamga JR. 9 years ago

    The Article was well written but I wish the author did not make comments to insinuate the west did not care about Ebola until two westerners got infected. I am a bit surprised at the author's thought process. I am not too sur ...
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  • Agyemang- Duah Victor 9 years ago

    We must all unite and join the fighting against the deadly Ebola Virus.May God be our helper Africa.

  • Kwaku Ntawatawa 9 years ago

    The pharmco Guys said they did not deem it profitable to do research and manufacture.Mouse experimentations were to begin in 2015
    Now they have been subsidized by the Army Corps to manufacture this Zappa and damn the sid ...
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  • Van Gaal 9 years ago

    Must Africans wait on America to develop a vaccine for it?I thought a blackman is capable of managing his own affairs

  • obikyire 9 years ago

    This writer needs to examine his ideas. People of half baked mentality Monkey dey work ,baboon dey chop.
    It is this mentality of an educated African that is keeping the continent away from development.
    A disrespect to human ...
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  • WISE 9 years ago

    white DID NOT hold our hands and brains.
    writer did u make an attempt to study how they manufactured that drug for u to advance it. this is not POLITICS. IF IT IS GENOCIDE, FINE COUNTERACT WIT YOUR ABILITY. ANIMAL POLITICS. ...
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  • Joesant 9 years ago

    Oh yeah, blame the white one. They are just helping. They don't owe us anything. Trust me ,black man will even find a way to sell the medicine to get rich. When America government vote some money for research,the don't use it ...
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  • Adwoa 9 years ago

    I know and we know it is a manufactured virus,they should keep using Africans as experimental tool,God is watching.