Public Health
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Some Lessons from the History of Epidemics in Africa
The history of endemic diseases epidemics and pandemics in Africa shows that the continent has had a long experience of biomedicine -
Epidemics and Social Observation: Why Africa Needs a Different Approach to Covid-19
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
Identity based welfare exclusion reinforces the Kenyan's state fault lines of power and access -
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من على البعد: دروس مفيدة من تجارب العون في الصومال والسودان لأزمة كوفيد-19*
Going Remote: Learning from Aid Practices in Somalia and Sudan for the Covid-19 Crisis -
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
