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.
Few things are going on as normal during the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, political dysfunction in Lesotho continues, with negative ramifications for Basotho.
Pentecostalism in Nigeria preaches that prayer, not political action, is the solution to COVID-19.
Who will watch the police and the army in South Africa as they act on behalf of the state to enforce COVID-19 regulations.
President Museveni announces 14-day lockdown as market vendors are beaten, the sick unable to move to hospitals and the wealthy bunker down in their solar-powered homes.
South Africa mustn’t forget the public—and that includes migrants and refugees—in its public health response to COVID-19.
What are the roles of the African Union and the African Center for Disease Control in responding to COVID-19?
COVID-19 isn’t simply a medical or epidemiological crisis; it is a crisis of sovereignty.
This crisis has further emphasized the neglect of Kenya’s poor by the government, and is therefore “a wake up call that we are on our own.”
Coronavirus and the problematic perception of migrants as health threats.
What lessons can we learn for today from the 2008-09 cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe?
The coronavirus pandemic places moral, economic, and political questions before us. Only two answers remain: socialism or barbarism.
The coronavirus COVID-19, just like Ebola, reminds us what happens when crisis ignite deep-rooted stereotypes. Yet viruses, or any disease for that matter, do not see color. Nor do they recognize states borders and ethnic enclaves.
News of a potential cure for HIV shouldn't lead us to complacency. There are 37m people in the world with HIV, nearly half who can't access treatment.
The global response to a disease that largely effects the most marginalized populations of poorer countries shows a basic lack of respect for human rights on the part of international institutions.
Recent Zambian governments and in particular the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) have a history of reaching out to Christianity to manage crises.
In Nigeria, there is a critical mass of scientific, medical and public health expertise—from managing medical crises, natural disasters and the health-related fallouts of economic breakdown.
AIDS interventions are often funded from afar and fail to realize the people they're trying to assist have opinions on AIDS interventions.
The physical and mental health of a head of state, one assumes, is a basic requirement as to whether they can perform their job adequately. Not in some parts of Africa.
Angola is in the midst of a yellow fever outbreak that has caught worldwide attention. Between