The mother of all failures
In Angola, President Lourenço's government failed to address COVID-19 due to corruption and incompetence.
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The case for educational justice in post-COVID Africa
If generations of African youth are to prosper post-pandemic, a fundamental and vital shift in educational context and content is needed.
The tools for defeating quackery
Why we need randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to find the best ways to treat COVID-19.
The lesser of two evils
In Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, a partial COVID-19 lockdown has increased domestic violence, but women are not turning to shelters.
The unforeseen threat
Many of Nairobi's apocalypse merchants and prophesy peddlers have disappeared in the past year. Reflections on how COVID-19 has re-shaped the city and residents' lives.
COVID-19 and teacher education in rural Ghana
The coronavirus shutdown in Ghana exposes the weaknesses and inequities in the country’s education system.
Beyond the Western gaze
The "Africa needs help" vs. "No! Africa can teach you lessons!" is tiring. Other than benefiting a few pundits, are we deriving any value from it?
Not waiting for a savior
The African response to the coronavirus pandemic displays innovation and ingenuity.
Tips from the apocalypse
Speculative fiction by writers from Africa explore viral apocalypses. What can we learn from art on catastrophe?
On Safari
What a year. Stay safe, wear a mask, social distance and when the vaccine becomes available where you are, get vaccinated.
Johannesburg cannot police its future
South Africa’s biggest city is ground zero for debates about the long-term effectiveness and constitutionality of militarized urban policing and how we imagine the post-COVID city.
A nowhere space
In an agreement between the EU and African countries, refugees held at sea in the Mediterranean cannot claim rights to asylum. They are forever in limbo.
Independence Day
The labor and political organizing of Somali immigrants in the US Midwest should inspire more Americans to join the broader movement for worker rights and racial equality.
What washerwomen would say on a webinar
Regular Kenyans try to survive the economic fallout from the coronavirus.
The virus of whiteness
COVID-19 has been used to justify xenophobia and anti-Asian racism, but a white South African woman’s hoarding behavior illustrates the global anti-black and anti-poor response to crises.
Fear and solidarity
Surviving the COVID-19 crisis as a jobless Sierra Leonean domestic worker in Lebanon. They are stuck together after losing their jobs or fleeing abusive employers.
Corona, how are you?
COVID-19 spreads from Europe to Africa, inverting colonial imaginaries of African disease and challenging inherited hierarchies.
Paying the ultimate price
COVID-19 is teaching us lessons we should have learned from the HIV epidemic.
The irrelevance of NGOs in Tanzania
NGOs have been notably absent in the fight against COVID-19, despite claims they exist solely to ensure accountability and transparency by government.
Pandemic in the city
How African immigrants in New York City’s Manhattan borough coped with the COVID-19 pandemic.