Hello Earthlings (and any Martians out there lurking our planet),
congratulations on making it through the second week of 2015. With
the hustling and bustling of everyday life, this may seem like a trivial
accomplishment however, one just has to turn on their TVs or go on the internet
to see that many people were not as fortunate. Everyday
people across the planet are faced with numerous experiences ranging from deaths,
hardships, victories and so much more.
Some of these events are shown repeatedly by media outlets while many are
trivialized and barely shown, thus making billions of people far removed from
these events. In light of this, “Watin de Apin” (meaning what is
happening) will be a weekly post highlighting some of the good, the bad and the ridiculous
events of the week with commentaries from me of course J. On that note, let us dive
into events for the week of January 4 - 10, 2015.
The Good
Bye, Bye to Ebola in
Liberia
It was indeed great
news to hear that the Ebola situation in Liberia will soon be history. Liberia
has gone from having the most Ebola cases with a peak of 300 new confirmed
cases per week to currently having the lowest among the three countries with eight
new confirmed cases per week. In the
true West African spirit, my Liberian folks took to the streets to dance Ebola away, to celebrate this accomplishments. Check out the video below.
Tell me what’s not to
like about the unbreakable spirits of Africans.
Nothing, I repeat nothing can break our Spirits, not War, not Ebola, not
Stigmatization!
Further putting Liberia in the good book for this week, is
the president’s decision to send some of its Ebola health workers to help neighboring
Sierra Leone which continues to be ravaged by Ebola with 248 new confirmed cases per week. This is
very selfless of Liberia considering the fact that they themselves have barely
fully recovered. For this selfless act, Sierra Leoneans, myself included are
grateful. In like manner Kenya and South Korea have decided to send health
workers to Sierra Leone. Thank you to both countries (my question though is
what took you so long? J
). I am all for other countries sending aid to nations in emergency health
situations, however it seems like there continues to be a lack of aid coordination
in Sierra Leone, without which no
progress is likely.
