Lockdowns may have made sense in the initial civilizational panic but their efficacy, and sustainability are now being put into question. Now that the pandemic evolves...
Dr. Chambi Chachage: Pandemics evolve from being a clinical health issue, to public health issue before becoming a public order issue. At that point urban anthropology,...
Dr. Alex Awiti: We’re living in the new dispensation in which COVID-19 will become part and parcel of our clinical and public health realities. How then...
Dr. Adia Benton: Pandemics are not new to human civilization. In light of that certain lessons picked up from dealing with previous calamities and pandemics become...
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...
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...
The economic impact of the global pandemic will last longer and affect much more than the medical virus has so far. This will definitely call for...
The world has shifted irreparably in ways that will fundamentally human organization. Prof. Larry Diamond urges the world to move forward with boldness embracing new paradigms...
After years of sidelining and marginalizing its scholars, African societies and the wider public are increasingly turning their ears towards their learned sons and daughters. This...
Africa’s pandemic prospects is a mixed bag of learned and missed lessons as well as countervailing factors which in the end produce a less than stellar...