A virtual roundtable of Nigeria- and Africa-focused experts discussing how COVID-19 will affect Nigeria and the wider African continent.
Special Focus: COVID-19
The Excessive Debt Burdens of COVID-19 Development Financing in the Pandemic
As African governments attempt to battle the economic impacts of COVID-19, they must re-imagine development financing which will translate into efficiency in public expenditure and foresight in public investments that go hand in hand with inclusion, accountability and transparency as political norms and values. Read more. Read More...
Are We Victims of Pharmaceutical Half-Truths? The Politics of Clinical Trials in Africa
According to the largest clinical trial registry in the world, out of 3,500 COVID-19 clinical trials, only five are ongoing in Nigeria. Read more. Read More...
For the Community, By the Community COVID-19, Design and Handwashing Infrastructure in Nigeria
COVID-19 is the latest instance of a widespread disease outbreak that has exposed the inadequate investment in basic but potentially impactful public health infrastructure, across the world. Read more. Read More...
Two Windows COVID-19 and the World Bank’s Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility
The Ebola Crisis motivated the World Bank to launch the Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility in 2016. But how effective has the PEF been in dealing with COVID-19? Read more. Read More...
Unprofitable Diseases Ebola, COVID-19 and the Return of Industrial Policy in Africa?
Like Ebola, COVID-19 demonstrates the urgent need for domestic pharmaceutical industries in African nations. Read more. Read More...
Southern Africa’s Persistent Dilemma Coronavirus and the Lost Legacy of the AIDS Epidemic
While SARS-CoV-2 and HIV are different pathogens, comparing the viruses themselves, as well as how southern Africa has responded to them, can help us better understand the region’s current climate and provide insight into whether coronavirus and its aftermath will spur a crisis on a scale comparable to the United States. Read more. Read More...
A Monstrous Overlap COVID-19 and the New Climate Change Imperative
The preparedness of African countries to combat public health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic is debatable, it is obvious that they currently lack the capacity to transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy. Read more. Read More...
(Purse) Strings Attached From Dependency to Decolonization in Global Health
COVID-19 is reminding us that global health has long operated a model in which Africans are treated as subjects of a quasi-philanthropic complex that, in turn, feeds one of the largest industries in the world. Read More...
God the Master Scientist COVID-19, Pandemics and Reconciling Religious Faith With Science
Accommodationists insist that during crisis moments like the current COVID-19 pandemic, scientists should lead with research and innovation while the believers should pray to God to bestow scientists with the knowledge to produce the needed vaccines. Read more. Read More...
‘Only Science Can Save Mankind’ Coronavirus, the Death of Religion and the Resurrection of Science
Science-centrists, who are convinced of the success of science in modeling the world, view all faith-centric responses to COVID-19 as an antithesis to ‘common-sense approaches’ to public health. Read more. Read More...
