Paul Richards, Author at African Arguments

Author: Paul Richards

Paul Richards

Paul Richards is an anthropologist with experience of living and working in West Africa over several decades. He is a professor at Njala University in Sierra Leone. He is author of Ebola: How a People's Science Helped End an Epidemic (2016).

Anthropology Covid-19 COVID-19 Debating Ideas Public Health Social Policy Texts and Contexts

By Paul Richards
June 1, 2020
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Epidemics and Social Observation: Why Africa Needs a Different Approach to Covid-19

Why haven’t social factors been more thoroughly scrutinised in the huge upsurge of scientific effort to combat Covid-19?

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COVID-19 Debating Ideas Response Piece

By Paul Richards
April 2, 2020
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Response Piece by Paul Richards to Alex de Waal’s: ‘Can There Be A Democratic Public Health?’

Response Piece by Paul Richards to Alex de Waal's piece; Can There Be A Democratic Public Health?

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Covid-19 Debating Ideas Public Health

By Paul Richards
March 30, 2020
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Preparing for Covid-19 in Africa

Preparing for Covid-19 in Africa

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Covid-19 Debating Ideas Public Health

By Paul Richards
March 17, 2020
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What Might Africa Teach the World? Covid-19 and Ebola Virus Disease Compared

What might Africa teach the world? Covid-19 and Ebola Virus Disease compared

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Politics

By Paul Richards
May 19, 2016
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How black bin bags and common sense helped end an epidemic, and what we can learn from it

Rather than formal health systems, it was local common sense, allied to local ingenuity, that was crucial in ending Ebola. Is it time for a bottom-up ...

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