World Maleria Day.....CAPE TOWN-BASED IT EXPERT AARE BIOBAKU TASKS AFRICAN GOVTS ON MALARIA FUNDING

“Malaria is a virus in our development software. Until we debug it, Africa’s operating system will keep crashing.” 

That was the pointed analogy from California, USA-trained global I.T. expert and humanitarian based in Cape Town, South Africa, High Chief Aare Mojeed Biobaku, as he advised African governments to invest more in the global fight against malaria

Speaking on World Malaria Day, High Chief Biobaku expressed concern that young children and adults still die daily from malaria across the continent. He described the disease as Africa’s oldest cybersecurity threat, constantly breaching the continent’s health firewall and draining human capital. For a tech innovator, he said, it is unacceptable that a 21st-century Africa still loses lives to a 17th-century disease that is preventable and treatable.

Aare Biobaku urged African leaders to deploy technology and funding with equal urgency. He called for increased investment in health-tech solutions: AI-driven mosquito surveillance, drone-assisted larvicide spraying, blockchain for drug supply chains, and mobile platforms for early diagnosis in rural areas. Governments, he argued, must fund innovation hubs that develop homegrown malaria tech instead of relying solely on imported interventions. “We code apps for banking and betting. We must code solutions for survival,” he said.

The Cape Town-based humanitarian also linked malaria to the digital divide. He noted that sick children miss school, sick coders miss deadlines, and sick nations miss the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Malaria, he said, is not just killing people; it is killing Africa’s tech talent pipeline. He challenged African governments to allocate at least 2% of their annual I.T. and innovation budgets to health-tech research targeting malaria eradication.

As the world marks World Malaria Day on April 25, High Chief Aare Mojeed Biobaku’s charge to African leaders is clear: treat malaria like the malware it is. “Update your policies. Install prevention. Back it up with funding,” he said. “Africa cannot upload its future to the cloud when mosquitoes keep shutting down the system here on the ground.”  

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