A man hangs an Ebola awareness banner in the Kigonze camp in Bunia, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, on May 28, 2026. [AFP]
I apologise upfront for the coarse imagery in the title of this piece. I didn’t invent it. In fact, it’s drawn from a book bearing a very beautiful title: The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ghanaian author Ayi Kwei Armah.