After nearly two decades researching and writing about global health in eastern and southern Africa, I am shifting my attention to new questions and new forms of writing. My current major project traces the history of an open secret in African Studies and Anthropology and sheds fresh light on how power, patronage, and patriarchy works across generations in academia and beyond. Another is a far more personal story of a marriage. The last is on “decolonizing” global health.

Perhaps these projects will be braided into a single monograph. Perhaps they will emerge in pithy essays or small jewels of fiction. Perhaps some of these projects will remain unfinished in unruly folders full of Word Documents or handwritten notebooks. I am excited about all of them. I look forward to sharing them with you.