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 cybercafes, where would one go? Where could one go? Why, with a smile and a handshake, very far, indeed!

— 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

If rhetoric study was the military, grammar teachers would be the drill sergeants.

— 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

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

— 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

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

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

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

— T.K. Naliaka

Over a century now after Dr. William Gorgas wiped Yellow Fever out of Havana and Panama, and by that out of an entire continent, and more than half a century after Fred Lowe Super led the eradication of Anopheles gambiae out of Northeast Brazil, their names are unknown, their carefully-detailed, boots-on-the-ground methods that they described in detail to leave expressly for generations to study and learn from to apply to malaria - and specifically they both had the desire for the destruction of malaria in Africa on their minds - is unread. The mistakes they warned about, the assumptions that they discovered to be useless and ineffectual in the field against disease-bearing mosquitoes are repeated today, while what Gorgas and Super found to be effective and efficient in real-life conditions are routinely ignored or unknown, avoidable errors blithely doomed to be repeated thanks to modern ignorance of their incredibly important and transformative historical successes in public health. In the battles against malaria, to be ignorant of Gorgas’ and Super's work in eradicating the mosquito that carries it is to be hobbled by the lack of hard-earned field knowledge, practical and effective discoveries that remain completely relevant and critical to success in eradicating malaria today.

— T.K. Naliaka