Racialized Discourses on Disease at Intersections of Canadian and the Caribbean Contexts

In this essay, I juxtapose human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and COVID-19 to argue that global citizens during those two pandemics have not dealt simply with disease per se but, more fundamentally, with assertive human rights-driven reactions to ongoing neocolonial control and domination of an African continent whose indigenous populations have for decades been preoccupied, and rightly so, with reestablishing self-determined interactions with the larger international community.