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Funeral Practices and Cultural Dignity in the Time of Covid

By Vuyokazi Nelly Sharpley Leslie Bank
July 31, 2020

Funeral Practices and Cultural Dignity in the Time of Covid

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Trapped by Covid and a Hostile Europe: Sudanese Migrants and Refugees* in Belgium

By Susanne Jaspars Dalal Rajab
July 8, 2020

Trapped by Covid and a Hostile Europe: Sudanese Migrants and Refugees in Belgium

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Contact Tracing: Learning Lessons from Sierra Leone

By Khadija Alia Bah
June 29, 2020

Lessons from the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone for contact tracing Covid-19

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People’s Science and Translocality in South Africa

By Vuyokazi Nelly Sharpley Leslie Bank
June 15, 2020

Can failure to take account of social embeddedness of economics account for the mismanagement of the Covid-19 pandemic?

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Covid-19, the Working Class and the Poor in South Africa

By Ncumisa Willie Faisal Garba
June 12, 2020

South Africa’s racial capitalism has consumed numerous Black working class lives.

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COVID-19 and Agricology: Echoes of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Africa

By Ronald Elly WANDA
June 10, 2020

Can Africans circumvent the on-going global health crisis through a return to indigenous knowledge systems?

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Africa Day 2020 Marks 100 Days Since the Covid-19 Outbreak: A Celebration of a Continent Not Backing Down

By DevDispatch
June 8, 2020

The eve of Africa Day 2020 marked 100 days since the outbreak of Covid-19: how is the continent faring?

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Some Lessons from the History of Epidemics in Africa

By Florence Bernault
June 5, 2020

The history of endemic diseases epidemics and pandemics in Africa shows that the continent has had a long experience of biomedicine

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Epidemics and Social Observation: Why Africa Needs a Different Approach to Covid-19

By Paul Richards
June 1, 2020

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

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Kenya and Covid-19: Pandemic Response Risks Excluding Minority Groups

By Ella Duncan
May 29, 2020

Identity based welfare exclusion reinforces the Kenyan's state fault lines of power and access

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