Ahsan Ahmed
3 min readApr 5, 2020

Africans Are Not Lab Rats

This is not happening for the first time that, Africans become the victim of racism by Elite west. I’ve been watching football since years & the way they(some European fans) react to someone’s color is very awful. Being themselves flag holder of Liberalism in the world, they fail to provide it through their actions.



Once again when world is hit by Covid-19 & so many researchers across the globe are busy in making vaccines to retreat the virus, when we all needed to work together as human by ignoring all religious, national & facial hurdles two French medical experts have shown their narrow minds with racist comments over Africa.



Head of intensive care unit at Cochin Hospital, Paris Jean Paul Mira & the research director at French national health institute, Camille Lotcht have made some serious racist comments on a French TV channel LCI.

African People who are the least affected of the virus are claimed as very un protective of themselves as they don’t have masks to wear & quality treatment, so as they’re open to air isn’t that a better idea to do trial vaccine on them & very shamelessly he gave example of trying aids vaccine on prostitutes because they’ve more chances of having that & both got agreed on that.

When Australia & European research laboratories are very close to make trials for vaccines, such comments have made us feel that people of certain part of world are taken as No Value!



Social Media has reacted to it very well & #AfricansAreNotLabRats has been a top trend today. We saw some big names bursting out to against such vulgar comments over Africans.

1st name was of African football legend & former Chelsea player Dieder Drogba saying that “Africa isn’t the testing lab”. He further added “ I’d like to vividly denounce those demeaning, false & most of all deeply racist words”.

Another was Barca Former Striker Samuel Eto, who said that, ” Africans aren’t Guinea Pigs”.

Well these are not just comments over the issue but feelings of the large population of the world!

Let’s see what officials do in the near future against these two but we hope to see a world free of all these hurdles but what it looks that even Covid-19 wasn’t enough to make us clos

Ahsan Ahmed
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