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To effectively combat disease outbreaks like Ebola, it is necessary to strengthen and expand local health systems, rather than rely on temporary and often ineffective measures from foreign organizations.

Seventeen African countries raised new flags, established new constitutions, and sent delegates to the United Nations in 1960, the Year of Africa, according to historians. The world reacted positively to the official start of a new era of “independence.” But was that enough?

Real choice is ultimately what African sovereignty requires, not a false choice between Western extraction dressed as partnership and Russian or Chinese replacement of the West that perpetuates Africa’s dependency.