Author: Pius Kamau
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Science is ideologically neither left nor right | Pius Kamau
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis couldn’t stand his colleagues’ filth; their putrid, bloody apparel and hands he reasoned, were the source of the puerperal fever, the deadly infection plaguing 19th century Europe’s maternity wards. His solution:…
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Science is ideologically neither left nor right | Pius Kamau
Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis couldn’t stand his colleagues’ filth; their putrid, bloody apparel and hands he reasoned, were the source of the puerperal fever, the deadly infection plaguing 19th century Europe’s maternity wards. His solution: a revolutionary idea. Wash hands and clean doctors’ and nurses’ filthy clothing while tending to pregnant mothers and their newborn…
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Liberia — land of freed Americans | Pius Kamau
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save “Thank you. And such good English,” the White man said to the Black man. “Such beautiful. Where did you learn to speak so beautifully? Where were you educated? Where?” the incredulous American President continued, smiling,…
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Liberia — land of freed Americans | Pius Kamau
“Thank you. And such good English,” the White man said to the Black man. “Such beautiful. Where did you learn to speak so beautifully? Where were you educated? Where?” the incredulous American President continued, smiling, looking at the Black man, the President of Liberia. President Joseph Boakai and four other West African presidents were discussing…
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Immigrants must respect their hosts | Pius Kamau
It was a hoax that Haitians in Ohio were eating dogs and other pets; an untruth repeated by our president in his 2024 election campaign. Our Venezuelan immigrants escaped such accusations. But they were accused of “occupying” the city of Aurora by Trump, who said he came to Aurora to figure out what “the hell…
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Tallying the tragic toll of our wasted youth | Pius Kamau
Alexa Bartell was killed by a rock thrown at her car at night by strangers who were having fun throwing rocks at passing vehicles. Just for fun. Many drivers who were luckier than Alexa were nonetheless frightened as rocks noisily crashed their cars’ trunks, or glass windows. None of it made sense to me; there…
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Africa is no place for the U.S.’s undocumented | Pius Kamau
To many Americans, the Trump administration’s announcement that undocumented immigrants will be sent to Rwanda and possibly South Sudan was another “blip” in the quotidian news barrage. Not for me. I’ve followed Rwanda’s development since the 1994 genocide, and South Sudan since its independence from the Arab North in 2011. Sending folks rounded up every…
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Trump’s missed opportunity on Africa | Pius Kamau
President Donald Trump in the presence of Cyril Ramaphosa, the South African president, claimed that South African Whites were being killed in a genocide. What a genocide is, and what it is not, came to mind because I belong to CoAGG — Coalition Against Global Genocide, and host the podcast: “Never Again,” in which we…
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In Leo, my papal wishes were granted | Pius Kamau
As the world watched the Vatican chimney hoping for white smoke, many prayed for someone to take Francis’ place. For some a degree of enthusiasm existed that election of an African pope was preferable. I would, from a purely ethnic point, have liked to see this happen. From a rational point, the three electable African…
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The foreign torturers among us | Pius Kamau
Many Americans see immigrants as a homogeneous mass of humanity; a group of people to be loved, welcomed, or looked at with jaundiced eyes. Though I see immigrant refugees differently, our American countrymen have the right to see immigrants in their own way. All the same, better would be an attempt to know a bit…