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Author: Toby Green

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Toby Green

Toby Green is a Professor of African History at King’s College London and the author of The Covid Consensus: The New Politics of Global Inequality (Hurst). He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Collateral Global (https://collateralglobal.org)

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    Pandemic policies in South Africa: A model of neocolonial state capture

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    Medical Colonialism: Pandemic Impacts and Vaccine Delivery

    Inequality, Healthcare and Vaccine Access in Africa
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    Covid, lockdowns and vaccines: Why Africa shouldn’t copy the West

    Every policy has costs and benefits. In most African countries, redirecting all resources to tackling COVID-19 will cost more lives than it will save. Since COVID-19 ...
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