The Diaspora learned about the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in Ituri Province because Geneva said so — three weeks after the index case fell ill, seventeen days after the first healthcare workers died, and seventy-two hours after 80 people were already suspected dead. This is not a failure of awareness. It is a structural choice: the African American institutional ecosystem has outsourced its threat recognition to an organization with a documented history of delaying emergency declarations for political and economic reasons, while building no independent health forecasting capability of its own. The institution that would anchor Diaspora health sovereignty — purpose-built, independently capitalized, with field presence in Africa Core and the legal standing to act without waiting for Geneva — does not exist. No one is designing it. The conversation that would produce the design is not happening. Continue reading →