Archive for the ‘sleeping-sickness’ tag
Colonialism still alive and well on Wikipedia
I had to make an edit to an entry on trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) which claims that the loss of colonial authority is responsible for the resurgence of the disease, rather than the forced evacuations of habitable land by the British and their rather disastrous conservation policies.
I notice this days after talking with Mamading Ceesay, where he describes how Wikipedia’s Neutral Point Of View (NPOV) policy can be equated with VOE - View Of Empire.
More to come.
