A frontline view of Africa's health crises and the courage it takes to lead through them.
From remote field missions to high-level boardrooms, Dr Leopold Zekeng takes readers on an extraordinary journey through decades of HIV and AIDS response, global health diplomacy and crisis leadership in Africa. This powerful memoir offers a rare, insider's account of the challenges, victories and difficult decisions that shaped public health across the continent.
With stories that span Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Ghana, Nigeria, the DRC, and beyond, Dr Zekeng reflects on what it means to serve with conviction amid shifting donor priorities, deadly pandemics and persistent stigma. He opens up about the personal cost of leadership, the lessons he learned mentoring future leaders, and the unyielding hope that kept him going, even in the darkest moments.
This is not just a memoir. It is a manual for rising above fear, fighting for dignity and leading with heart.
For anyone interested in global health, leadership in crisis, or the untold stories of AfricaÕs public health heroes, this book is a must-read., memoir, global health, true life story, africa, hiv and aids, cameroon, Leopold Zekeng| 9789786950709 | 630PAGES