For years public health suffered as clinical health flourished because clinical medicine is much easier to marketize, privatize and monetize. Now COVID is demanding a public...
Prof. Elisio Macamo is a sociologist from Mozambique, currently a professor of African Studies at the University of Basel. Prof. Macamo argues that the current raft...
Working from home (WFH) certainly has its advantages, but studies have shown that prolonged isolation can have dire mental health consequences. As societies change their behaviour...
The lockdown in Entebbe brings back memories of another lockdown in a boarding school in Teso, where, in the midst of a raging war and looming...
President Magufuli’s response to the current coronavirus crisis has been far from exemplary. Some of his actions, like urging pubs to throw post-coronavirus parties and firing...
The Elephant in conversation with Dr Chambi Chachage, a Tanzanian professor of African Studies at Princeton University.
This pandemic is an economically unique trouble in that it has affected both demand and supply while notoriously failing to respond to the usual fiscal and...
The African governments are notoriously averse to expert advice often preferring the simplistic solutions and perspectives of the court jesters. This time though the complexity of...
The nation-states across Africa are so caught up in self-preservation through securitization of the COVID-19 responses. As policy expert, Zein Abubakar explains this was entirely predictable...
Dr David Ndii in conversation with Prof Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and professor at Columbia University.
