Praying through the pandemic
Pentecostalism in Nigeria preaches that prayer, not political action, is the solution to COVID-19.
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It will be survival for the fittest when the COVID-19 vaccine arrives. As it stands, relevant international regimes for its distribution are not in Africa’s favor.
The mother of all failures
In Angola, President Lourenço's government failed to address COVID-19 due to corruption and incompetence.
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.
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.
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.
Although it’s dangerous, we need to survive
Burundian refugees in Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Uganda are enacting grassroots responses to COVID-19.
Paying the ultimate price
COVID-19 is teaching us lessons we should have learned from the HIV epidemic.
The death of an exceptional woman
The cruel and lonely COVID-19 death of the South African land and rural women’s activist, Siza Ngubane.
The devil coronavirus
With their government obsessed more with control of information than COVID-19 itself, Tanzanians are bracing for the worst.
Corona, how are you?
COVID-19 spreads from Europe to Africa, inverting colonial imaginaries of African disease and challenging inherited hierarchies.
The most powerful man in Nigeria
The legacy of Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, who died from COVID-19, helps us understand how powerful and yet constrained Nigeria's Presidency is.
The undeclared war in Somalia
The United States’ military operations in Somalia are not well known because they'e carried out secretly or via proxies. COVID-19 hasn't slowed them down.
Organized irresponsibility
On this week's AIAC Talk, a discussion with historian Adam Tooze on the history and future of the COVID-19 crisis.
Pandemic in the city
How African immigrants in New York City’s Manhattan borough coped with the COVID-19 pandemic.
China and Africa: A trial by pandemic?
Recent racist incidents in China are just a manifestation of deeply rooted attitudes vis-à-vis "blackness" in China that predate and will outlive COVID-19.
Place matters
If COVID-19 teaches us anything, it is that the virus has no boundaries, and the well-being of both rich and poor are co-dependent. What we do about that matters.
Who will watch the watchmen?
Who will watch the police and the army in South Africa as they act on behalf of the state to enforce COVID-19 regulations.
The real pandemic
The South African government's COVID-19 "rescue plan" is an opportunity to rethink its economic model, if it can break with market orthodoxy.
Decolonizing the COVID-19 response
Looking beyond the West to understand how to manage pandemics without choosing between saving lives or livelihoods. Live on YouTube Tuesday. Subscribe to our Patreon for the archive.