ABSTRACT
Perhaps more than any other region, Africa is the most vulnerable in the familiar kneejerk responses to major health crises in the name of global public health (GPH). Africa’s recent experiences with two GPH events, Ebola and COVID-19, reechoes the politics of bordering as a convenient tool of historic power dynamic that sequesters the continent. Ebola and COVID-19 experiences unmask the hollowness of the principles-based constitutional frameworks of the World Health Organizations (WHO) and the International Health Regulations (IHR). Anticipated increases in pandemics and other global health emergencies require a reimagined GPH beyond its fraught colonial biases towards sensitivity to the most vulnerable and with reduced political influence of state sovereignty and a deliberate consciousness for global solidarity.
