“Who decided that they needed high-tech equipment
over basic healthcare and medical facilities?”

Join Crystal Simeoni & Wangari Kinoti, Kenyan feminist authors as they discuss the nefarious influence of corporate power in their country’s public health system.

They are interviewed by DAWN’s feminist economist Corina Rodríguez Enríquez and project associate, Sue Godt, in this special episode about public-private partnerships in Africa.

The specialists delve into the case study “Medical Equipment Leasing in Kenya: Neocolonial Global Finance & Misplaced Health Priorities”. The conversation sheds light on what amounts to a neocolonial approach to development that has resulted in a dangerous lack of resources to address the most basic healthcare needs of the Kenyan population.

The episode offers paths to reimagining a truly public Africa rising, where African states can define and chart their policy agenda based on public well-being rather than corporate greed.

This podcast is part of a series of animated and live-action films produced under the project “Old Dog, New Tricks: Neocolonialism & Public-Private Partnerships in the Global South” that highlights the effects of PPPs on women’s lives.