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This issue explores Africa’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and lessons for the wider international community. Ge issue also includes feature essays on additional aspects of the pandemic such as local African attempts at designing public health solutions and the significance of religion to COVID-19 responses.
Liam James KingsleyNovember 2, 2020
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.
Francisco PerezNovember 17, 2020
Despite being considered ‘unprofitable diseases’, Ebola and COVID-19 have demonstrated the urgent need for larger domestic pharmaceutical industries in African countries.
Muzz MuhammadJuly 29, 2020
Author of ‘Echoes of History: COVID Vaccine Tests in Africa’ and ‘Looking for Solace’, Muzz Muhammad, thinks every health problem exists in a global context. ‘Borders are unnatural,’ he says, ‘there is no biological basis for the way that we have partitioned land for countries. Diseases seem to know this, but we don’t.’
Gbolahan BadmusNovember 23, 2020
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?
Abdulbasit KassimJune 19, 2020
Why are end-time conspiracy theories attributing the spread of COVID-19 to the 5G network and a proposed global world order gaining momentum?
Oluwaseun OguntuaseOctober 16, 2020
There is no evidence of a direct causal link between climate change and the emergence and lethality of COVID-19, but climate change is a pandemic enabler and accelerant.
'Pemi AgudaJuly 15, 2020
Writer, and author of ‘Saying “No More”—What Efuru Taught Me’ and ‘Things Boys Do’, ’Pemi Aguda, wants to do ‘new and daunting things’ with her writing. She writes, ‘because in these fictional worlds, I have some semblance of power.’
