My Africa Memoir Hits A Milestone

Celebrate with me, my friends. I’ve just sent the manuscript for my Africa memoir Vaccines & Bayonets: Fighting Smallpox in Africa amid Tribalism, Terror and the Cold War off to the proofreader. …

SMALLPOX SHUFFLES DYNASTIES

SMALLPOX SHUFFLING DYNASTIES “It shuffled the leadership of royal houses like a handful of playing cards.” So says writer Maryn McKenna of smallpox. (See my previous post.) Her National Geographic article revealed …