The necropolitics of COVID-19
COVID-19 isn’t simply a medical or epidemiological crisis; it is a crisis of sovereignty.
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Análise da gestão da COVID-19
Em Angola, o governo de Presidente Lourenço não conseguiu resolver a pandemia de COVID-19 devido a corrupção e incompetência.
How COVID-19 reveals the paradoxes of neoliberal logic
Pandemics force even neoliberal thinkers to admit government action and collective solidarity are urgently needed.
Will COVID-19 keep out of Africa?
While COVID-19 hasn't yet hit African cities as hard as those in the global North, it will eventually likely penetrate deep into the countryside where the most vulnerable live and where health facilities are rudimentary.
COVID-19 and cultural rites
In a Kenya coping with COVID-19 restrictions, circumcision season presents an impossible choice between tradition and civil obedience.
Unpacking South Africa’s COVID-19 “rescue package”
South Africa's R50bn ($26bn) rescue package is 10% of its GDP. It is a major step forward, but some warning lights are flashing.
Lessons from Africa’s past to cope with COVID-19
How managing COVID-19 and other crises necessitates Africa’s structural transformation, and what we can learn from the early post-independence development projects.
People Power in the age of COVID-19
Will the coronavirus pandemic extend Museveni’s authoritarianism or the lockdown instead provide openings for Uganda’s opposition?
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.
Fear and loathing in the time of COVID-19
Coronavirus and the problematic perception of migrants as health threats.
COVID-19 deepens division in the Comoros Islands
The arrival of coronavirus in the Comoros Islands has seen a disruption of informal migration routes and the unequal power relationship between the archipelago's islands.
Why xenophobia is bad for the health of all in South Africa
South Africa mustn’t forget the public—and that includes migrants and refugees—in its public health response to COVID-19.
A just recovery from COVID-19
COVID-19 exposed and exacerbated inequality and insecurity in North Africa's food systems. But the roots of the current crisis can be found in the legacy of colonialism and new forms of imperialism.
The business of Black death
The global public health industry is complicit in the reproduction of “the African tragedy.”
Financing Africa’s COVID-19 response
We need swift, bold, and decisive action on debt relief and monetary creation in Africa in order to face the coronavirus crisis and prevent many ordinary Africans from paying with their lives.
Decolonizing the vaccine
Africans can lead the charge to decolonize the profit-driven biomedical system by challenging European and American claims to prioritized access to the COVID-19 vaccine.