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

    By Ncumisa Willie Faisal Garba
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    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
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    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

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    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

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

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    Covid-19 and the New Scramble for Africa

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    May 27, 2020
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    من على البعد: دروس مفيدة من تجارب العون في الصومال والسودان لأزمة كوفيد-19*

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    May 26, 2020
    Going Remote: Learning from Aid Practices in Somalia and Sudan for the Covid-19 Crisis
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    Gifting and the Capable State in Times of Crisis

    By Leslie Bank
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    State gifting and the politics of bailouts in the time of Covid
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    To Help Respond to Covid-19, African Governments Should Prioritise Taxing the Rich

    By Wilson Prichard
    May 7, 2020
    African governments tax responses to Covid-19 may want to strategise sustaining and expanding taxation of rich individuals
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    Leveraging the African Union’s Role in the Time of Covid-19

    By Maryanne Iwara
    April 29, 2020
    To overcome Covid-19 the AU must implement a continental crisis cell to take on the responsibility of implementing short medium and long-term public health ...
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