Book Review: Lassa: A different history

By Bukar Usman
 
Title : A History of Lassa
Author : Abdulkadir G. Gadzama. Publisher: Solstice Technologies Nig. Limited.
Year of Publication : 2018.
Pages : 283. Price:
Reviewer : Bukar Usman
Fifty years after Jordi Casals-Ariet, the epidemiologist who discovered the Lassa fever virus – and nearly died doing so – made Lassa a globally-known town after naming and announcing his finding in 1969, Abdulkadir G. Gadzama told a different story of Lassa when he published A History of Lassa, his home town, in 2018. While the zoonotic side of the story tends to stigmatize Lassa town, Gadzama’s narrative tries to redirect attention to Lassa town’s glorious past and to the spritely L...