What an interesting contrast between us, even just in the consideration of one woman. Your complete disregard for her will ironically be your destruction, while my regard for her will be my triumph over you.

Will 2015 ever be noted as the year Ebola was decisively downgraded from a lurid horror meme to just one of many commonly treatable diseases?

Malnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth, one for the lack of food, the other for the lack of knowledge of food.

If people's night fears of sorcery - which negatively influences their decision to use mosquito nets - fail to impress the outsider, the brute everyday reality remains; in a number of rural African villages it is still much too common for very real hyenas to snatch people, especially children, out of their own homes as they lie sleeping at night, because of the lack of a good front door.

If literacy was natural, the word ‘illiteracy’ would not exist.

It's a lot like the Wild West out here... just with tea shops instead of saloons. Wild West Sahara, that is.

Many ‘experts’ don’t possess the imagination or vision or any of the logistical expertise required to achieve malaria eradication. Their opinions shouldn’t be allowed to hold back men and women who do possess these qualities from achieving the ‘impossible.

It’s not that easy living with malaria. The reality of the high annual death toll should make that very obvious.

Shovels aren't very glamorous, but they've been liberating entire communities from malaria for the past 5,000 years.