T.K. Naliaka Quotes & Sayings

Somehow your heart still knows me. — T.K. Naliaka

Any academic skill is quickly achievable if charged with clear purpose and an appeal to enthusiastic self-interest. Tarzan of the Apes only needed about twenty minutes to figure out how to read the beautiful Jane Porter's cursive writing. — T.K. Naliaka

Malaria-hosting mosquitoes will not wait politely during their most active evening feeding hours for people to go to bed under mosquito nets. — T.K. Naliaka

Even a little practical working familiarity with cattle goes a long way in Africa, but how many international relations studies include this? — T.K. Naliaka

Rainy season should fill us with joy, not malaria parasites. — T.K. Naliaka

It's not that easy living with malaria. The reality of the high annual death toll should make that very obvious. — T.K. Naliaka

If literacy was natural, the word 'illiteracy' would not exist. — T.K. Naliaka

Malaria eradication requires a 100% mind-set of success. There are no 70% or 80% or 90% efforts that pass in malaria control and eradication. One single infected mosquito that escapes can go on to bring death to dozens of victims in its lifespan, lay more eggs and restart an outbreak that progresses from a few to dozens to hundreds. — T.K. Naliaka

The wolves of the world have no pity for the confused, the scattered, the lost or the weak. — T.K. Naliaka

To paraphrase Lucretius, there's nothing more useful than to watch a man or woman in times of contagious deadly disease peril combined with his or her assumptions of financial adversity to discern what kind of man or woman they really are. — T.K. Naliaka

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

Incredibly, just one mosquito species, Aedes aegypti is responsible for the spread of four known different deadly viral diseases to human beings, yet this mosquito has been allowed to infest densely-populated urban centers. — T.K. Naliaka

When considering grand plans for effective communicable disease control in this time of Ebola peril, malaria continues to kill nearly a million people a year world-wide, and by far the single most reliable protection against malaria is to sleep under a mosquito net, but one of the major impediments to this basic and effective malaria control is that many people, regardless of education level or country of origin, in malaria endemic zones don't install and use one, not that they can't get one, but because they don't think the mosquito net 'looks nice. — T.K. Naliaka

How to spell Aedes aegypti,the world's one-stop, viral-disease-transmitting mosquito: T-R-O-U-B-L-E. — T.K. Naliaka

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. — T.K. Naliaka

Africa is a huge continent; it would take several lifetimes of thousands of researchers testing in hundreds of languages to collect a valid sample of anything, especially IQ. Most Africans do their schooling in a second language, not their mother tongue. How many people would accept to be tested for their IQ level not in their primary language? — T.K. Naliaka

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. — T.K. Naliaka

If one could speak two languages well and was raised on tea and baguettes for breakfast,in places where the most mundane daily business on the street is conducted in four languages, where horse carts park at cyber cafes, where would one go? Where could one go? Why,with a smile and a handshake, very far, indeed! — T.K. Naliaka

Green meant water, green patches meant farmers and farmers meant agriculture. Agriculture meant food to eat and food to sell, which meant towns and transport. They had reached civilization. — T.K. Naliaka

Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years. — T.K. Naliaka

It is not possible to live in a malaria endemic zone without either being sickened by it oneself or without knowing someone who has had it or been hospitalized with it or without personally knowing at least one man, woman or child who has died from it or without knowing at least one woman who has lost her unborn baby from it. — T.K. Naliaka

They won't turn away a father who has come to find his son. — T.K. Naliaka

The strength of human instinct seems to be quite overrated as it is so feeble it requires a lifetime of guidance, education, training and practical experience to develop. More critically, without conscious and diligent effort across one generation to pass its knowledge on to the next generation, all that was gained will be lost, forewarned by an increasing rarity of the reminiscence, "Every secret of life I know, I learned at my grandfather's knee. — T.K. Naliaka

If rhetoric study was the military, grammar teachers would be the drill sergeants. — T.K. Naliaka

Malaria prevention and eradication should be inspired by General George Patton's advice: "A good plan executed violently today is better than a perfect plan in a week." In this war of attrition, millions of people will be lost while waiting on researchers to finally emerge triumphant from their labs with the perfect malaria cure; yet meanwhile, there are plenty of time-proven, practical actions that individuals, families and communities can do today with what is already in hand that can decisively defeat malaria transmission if applied with vigor and disciplined consistency. — T.K. Naliaka

If no one knew them well enough to trust them, then no one was going to speak with them, then they would never get the information that would have warned them to be cautious. — T.K. Naliaka

If it is considered speaking knowledgeably about malaria by having spent a few weeks traveling into malaria endemic zones and fallen sick from being infected with it, then what is it considered by having lived in the very same malaria endemic zones for years without being infected by it? — T.K. Naliaka

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. — T.K. Naliaka

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? — T.K. Naliaka

It's a lot like the Wild West out here... just with tea shops instead of saloons. Wild West Sahara, that is. — T.K. Naliaka

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. — T.K. Naliaka

Most people around here prefer undead drivers, so I never get a chance to make any money on steady contracts. — T.K. Naliaka

Though they were not familiar with the expression,to paraphrase the saying, when any country in the Sahel sneezes, the rest of the region catches pneumonia, the men there would have clicked their tongues and ruefully nodded their heads that 'woolayi' this was the truth. — T.K. Naliaka

Huh. What a dope! Wait till Mom hears about this. He's so in trouble now. You know how crazy she gets about malaria. — T.K. Naliaka