Debating Ideas
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Love (from Afar) in the Time of Covid-19: Diaspora Humanitarianism and Pandemic Response
With close links to origin countries diasporas can mobilise quickly in a humanitarian crisis. -
Humour Ignores Social Distancing: Postcolonial Irony and Covid-19 in Africa
Africans are fighting and commenting on the Covid epidemic, as they did with long-established colonial narratives, through the medium of humour. -
Will Covid-19 South Africa be Another Case of ‘Death Without Weeping’?
How do Covid-19 socialised responses to death and disease compare with previous pandemics? -
Local Ownership of Peace Processes in African Countries in Times of Covid-19
How will COVID-19 affect ongoing peace processes? -
The Dangers of Covid-20: South Sudan’s Political Dilemma
Covid-19 presents opportunities to authoritarian governments throughout Africa to extend their control of society. The same is true in South Sudan -
Covid-19 Underscores the Need to Overhaul Social Policies Across Africa
Covid-19 Underscores the Need to Overhaul Social Policies across Africa -
Are African Governments Engaging Enough in Covid-19 Clinical Trial Participation?
Only a limited number of African countries are currently participating in Covid-19 clinical trials -
Prisons in the Time of the Coronavirus Pandemic in Africa
The coronavirus pandemic is finally initiating a debate on the health and social situation in prisons -
To Help Respond to Covid-19, African Governments Should Prioritise Taxing the Rich
African governments tax responses to Covid-19 may want to strategise sustaining and expanding taxation of rich individuals -
Lifeworlds in Crisis – Covid-19 Governmental Restrictions in Senegal and Chad
How to cope with the new Covid-19 social isolation restrictions rules varies as solutions are also culture-specific.
