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Covid-19

Exploring the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Africa on health, the economy, politics, social issues, culture and more. (This section includes articles from both the main site and the Debating Ideas sub-section.)

  • Covid-19

    Podcast: On vaccine hesitancy across the continent

    By SciDevNet
    February 26, 2021
    Welcome to the latest episode of the Africa Science Focus podcast distributed in partnership with African Arguments. Africa Science Focus is a weekly podcast ...
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    The Sociology of Ground Zero: The South African Variant and Colonial Prejudice

    By Leslie Bank
    February 25, 2021
    Colonial prejudice: the sociology of Ground Zero
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    Podcast: Of rising COVID-19 cases and vaccine doubt

    By SciDevNet
    February 12, 2021
    Read all our COVID-19 coverage  Welcome to the latest episode of the Africa Science Focus podcast distributed in partnership with African Arguments. Africa Science ...
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  • AnthropologyCovid-19COVID-19Debating IdeasEconomies and SocietiesSouth Africa

    Exhumed Bodies: Reburials and Cultural Resistance in Covid Times

    By Leslie Bank Aneza Madini
    February 10, 2021
    Politics of burial during Covid-19 in South Africa
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    Covid-19KenyaSocietyTop story

    How prepared is Kenya to roll out COVID-19 vaccines?

    By John Harrington & David Ngira
    February 10, 2021
    The government has been slow but, more importantly, its been left vulnerable by the competitive procurement strategies of richer countries. Kenya’s response to the ...
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  • AnthropologyBooks and ControversiesCovid-19COVID-19Debating IdeasPublic HealthSouth Africa

    Plastic Bodies, Public Policy and Popular Anger in Rural South Africa

    By Mark Paterson Leslie Bank
    February 2, 2021
    How the South African Government got it wrong on Covid-19 burials
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  • africa vaccine Community representatives in Beni, North Kivu, DRC, spreading health awareness. Photo: World Bank / Vincent Tremeau
    Covid-19Society

    Africa has a history of vaccine hesitancy but also of solutions to it

    By Oluwaseun Oguntuase
    January 27, 2021
    A poll in six African countries suggests 62% of people would get a COVID-19 vaccine if available. That wouldn’t be enough for population immunity. ...
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    Episode 10, African Arguments – African Voices: Community Response to Disease: A Conversation with Dr Lawrence Sao Babawo

    By African Arguments
    January 21, 2021
    Episode 8 AAAV Podcast :Community Response to Disease
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    Covid-19Editor's PicksSociety

    Africans don’t just live to die. A response to the New York Times.

    By Mamka Anyona
    January 8, 2021
    If reporting on Africa just caters to readers craving a glimpse into the strangeness of how the other half lives, we lose the chance ...
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  • Covid-19COVID-19Debating IdeasEthiopiaPublic Health

    Ethiopia is an Early Symptom of Africa’s Impending Covid Crises

    By David Meffe
    December 18, 2020
    Covid in the Horn of Africa
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