BRISER LE TABOU DU SUICIDE, RECONNAÎTRE NOS SAVOIRS ET RECONSTRUIRE NOS SYSTÈMES DE SOINS Quand la souffrance devient invisible, le silence des familles et des institutions peut aggraver une urgence de santé publique. Trente années de travail et une question qui ne peut plus attendre Depuis plus de trente ans, mes activités de recherche, d'enseignement et de pratique entre l'Europe et l'Afrique m'amènent à défendre une conception intégrative de la santé humaine. J'ai consacré une partie de ce parcours à examiner les liens entre la souffrance psychologique, le corps, les traumatismes, les comportements, l'environnement familial et les connaissances thérapeutiques africaines. Pourtant, promouvoir la Médecine Naturopathique Africaine dans les espaces scientifiques et institutionnels reste un exercice exigeant. Il m'est parfois apparu que notre volonté de construire des ponts entre les savoirs ancestraux et les connaissances scientifiques contemporaines nous plaçait dans une situation para

I am offering this masterpiece article to all Sierra Leoneans ! It deserves to be read not only by government officials, but also by parliamentarians, legal professionals, journalists, traditional and religious leaders, civil-society organisations, diplomats, the diaspora, universities, and ; most importantly the young people of Sierra Leone. This is not an attack on a government, a political party, or an individual. It is a national reflection and an invitation to every Sierra Leonean ; inside and outside positions of authority to examine the condition of our Republic and the quality of leadership required to rebuild it. May it reach the right minds, disturb comfortable silence, awaken responsible leadership, and inspire citizens to believe once again that Sierra Leone can rise through integrity, intelligence, and collective courage. Together, We Rise.! Sierra Leone’s Silent Emergency: The Leadership Intelligence Required to Rebuild a Nation A nation is not ultimately destroyed by the

An African Naturopathic Medicine Perspective on Public Memory, Community Healing, and the Future of Global Health The future of health equity will not be built by hospitals, technologies, medicines, policies, or insurance systems alone. These are necessary, but they are not sufficient. A society may build clinics and still leave communities unhealed. It may produce public health campaigns and still fail to restore trust. It may expand access to care and still ignore the historical wounds, cultural humiliations, ecological disruptions, and ancestral silences that continue to live inside the bodies of people. This is why the theme “Memory Landscapes: Reclaiming Cultural Power for Health Equity” is not merely a cultural or historical topic. It is a profound public health question. It asks us to examine the landscapes that shape belonging, dignity, trust, identity, safety, and collective resilience. It asks whether communities can be healthy when their memories have been erased, distorted,

THE PAN-AFRICAN FLAME : WHEN RARE KNOWLEDGE REFUSES TO DIE A message to African youth: your history is not empty, your intelligence is not accidental, and your future must not be outsourced. What joins Cheick Modibo Diarra, Philip Emeagwali and myself is not merely achievement. It is the Pan-African flame. It is ancestral science. It is the rare knowledge that flows through our veins — knowledge born from memory, struggle, observation, discipline, sacrifice, and a deep connection to the unseen architecture of African intelligence. We came from histories marked by trauma, displacement, silence, rejection, invisibility, and misunderstanding. But instead of allowing those wounds to destroy us, we transformed them into structures of thought, technology, computing, medicine, finance, innovation, strategy, creativity and human advancement. We belonged to an era before social networks. Before influencers. Before viral fame. Before artificial intelligence became a daily companion. Before ChatG

La proposition que l’Afrique n’était pas prête à entendre : pourquoi la santé naturelle, les plantes médicinales et l’innovation africaine doivent devenir une priorité continentale Il y a deux ans, lors du Forum d’Investissement de la CEDEAO à Lomé, au Togo, j’ai présenté devant des institutions, des décideurs, des investisseurs, des acteurs du développement et des représentants de notre région une proposition simple, mais urgente : L’avenir de l’Afrique ne se construira pas uniquement sur les minerais, l’aide extérieure, l’allègement de la dette ou les solutions importées. L’avenir de l’Afrique se construira aussi sur les idées, la connaissance, la recherche, la production locale et la transformation intelligente de ce que nos ancêtres nous ont laissé dans nos terres, nos forêts, nos traditions de soin et notre mémoire collective. Lors de ce forum, j’ai rappelé une phrase qui m’avait profondément marqué : « Les idées sont du capital. Le reste n’est que de l’argent. » Pendant trop long

Not everything I know, discover, or master comes exclusively from academic study, institutional training, or formal research. I hold intellectual discipline, method, observation, research, and structured transmission of knowledge in high regard. Yet it would be incomplete, perhaps even dishonest, to reduce certain intuitions, deep understandings, and discoveries to a purely academic journey. There are moments when knowledge seems to come from a place greater than oneself. Not in the sense of confused mysticism or the arrogant claim of possessing absolute truth, but rather as a form of connection to a source infinitely larger than the individual. A source that no human being can dominate, contain within a theory, or reduce to a single discipline, but from which one may sometimes receive fragments, provided one is prepared, attentive, lucid, and guided by a righteous intention. This relationship with knowledge requires humility. It reminds us that human intelligence cannot be limited to