I’ve talked about coloniality as a pervasive legacy underpinning and weighing down what I loosely refer to as “development” work, but it felt like I should try to cogently present my case. Ultimately, I decided it was wiser to let some of the experts speak.

• UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng’s ambitious agenda to decolonise global health and human rights.

• Where restrictive intellectual property laws block access to COVID-19 Vaccines, how a decolonised approach to human rights in global health can: shift from charitable models, increase manufacturing in Global South, consider responsibilities of corporations.

• Analysis of key components required for decolonising health governance in postcolonial countries, including efforts to advance community empowerment in Uganda .

• Examination of continuing coloniality in public health efforts

And how colonality is playing out in terms of COVID for Black Americans…

• Reparations for Black American descendants of persons enslaved in the U.S. and their potential impact on SARS-CoV-2 transmission

• Lancet Commission on Reparations and Redistributive Justice