Covid-19 in Africa: Societal and Economic Implications

ISBN-13: 9783031403156 / Angielski

Susan Arndt; Banhoro Yacouba; Taibat Lawanson

Spis treści

Introduction: Experiencing Covid-19 in Africa

 

Part 1: Discoursing and Narrating the Pandemic

 

Ch. 1: “So Much Fear and Unanswered Questions”: Discourses on Covid-19 in Côte d'Ivoire and Cameroon

 

Martina Drescher, Oumarou Boukari and Liliane Carline Ngawa Mbaho

 

Ch. 2: Wrathful Gods: Ethnography of Religion, Myths and Interpretations of Coronavirus in Nigeria

 

Ayokunmi O. Ojebode, Stephen O. Solanke and Oluwabusayo S. Okunloye

 

Ch. 3: Poetic Verses on COVID-19: Hausa lyricist’s expressions on the pandemic

 

Umma Aliyu Musa

 

Ch. 4 : The University of Niamey during Covid-19 : popular perceptions, containment measures and managing Muslim worship

 

Bello Adamou Mahamadou & Amadou Oumarou

 

Part 2: Experiencing and Coping with the Pandemic

 

Ch. 5: Inequalities, Exclusion and Covid-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa

              Raymond Boadi Frempong, Jacob Novignon, David Stadelmann

Ch. 6: Covid-19 and Intersectional Discrimination in Nigeria

 

Dikko Muhammad

 

Ch. 7 : Islam and Digital Media in Côte d’Ivoire : Countermeasures and Reinvention of Religious Practices during Covid-19

 Issouf Binaté

 

Ch. 8: Social Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic in Uganda

 

Nakijoba Rosemary; Mugabi Ddungu Racheal; Awobamise Ayodeji O., and Zaaly’embikke I.M. Majanja

 

Chapter 9: The Informal Sector and the Fight Against COVID-19: Insights from Commercial Bus Drivers and Petty Marketers in Lagos, Nigeria

 

Akinmayowa Akin-Otiko and Ademola K. Fayemi 

 

Ch. 10 : Social and economic implications of Covid-19 containment measures in the gold mining industry in Burkina Faso

 

Yacouba Banhoro and Hermann M. Konkobo

 

 

Part 3: Pandemic(s) and the Ethics of Care

 

 

Ch. 11: ‘Staying with the Trouble’:  Decolonial Care and Intersectional Responsibility in Knowledge Production in COVID 19 Times

 

Christine Vogt-William

Ch. 12: From Colonial Violence to Bare Life in South Africa:  Sexual Violence and Care Ethics

Amanda Gouws

O autorze

Susan Arndt is Professor of Literature at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. She has published widely on intertextuality, intersectionality, and critical race studies, focussing on British and Anglophone African literatures.

Banhoro Yacouba is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Burkina Faso. He has published on medical histories of Africa. He is the Director of the Joseph Ki-Zerbo’s African Cluster Centre, which is part of African Multiple.

Taibat Lawanson is Professor of Urban Planning and Co-Director of the Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. She researches on social complexities, urban realities and spatial justice.

Enocent Msindo is Dean of Humanities at Rhodes University, South Africa. He is a social and political historian with publications on ethnicity and nationalism, information policy, medical history, and others.

Peter Simatei is Professor of Comparative Literature at Moi University, Kenya. He publishes in the fields of postcolonial studies, Anglophone literature, and Diaspora studies.

Blurb

Written amidst the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, this edited volume draws on the expertise of social scientists and humanities scholars to understand the several ramifications of Covid-19 in societies, politics, and the economies of Africa. The contributors examine measures, communicative practices, and experiences that have guided the (inter)action of governments, societies and citizens in this unpredictable moment. Covid-19 tested governments’ disaster preparedness as well as exposed governments’ attitudes towards the poor and vulnerable. In the same vein, it also tested the agency of the generality of the African populace in the face of containment measures and how these impacted on everyday social, cultural and economic practices of the ordinary peoples. In this vein, our concern is to understand the relationship between growing vulnerability on the one hand and ingenuity of agency on the other, and how both were embodied, narrated and discoursed by the African poor, university students, religious entities, and middle-classes, and those that bore the major brunt of the lockdowns.

The volume is thus a useful resource for scholars of Africa, policy makers and those who want to understand Covid-19 in Africa. It provides a multiplicity of perspectives of the pandemic and African responses at different levels of society, economy and the political spectrum. The continental focus of this volume gives room for broader comparative analyses. Lastly, this interdisciplinary work benefits from the input of medical historians, anthropologists, sociologists, linguists, political scientists, literature scholars, urban planners, geographers and others.