Covid-19 in Africa : governance and containment / Susan Arndt, Yacouba Banhoro, Taibat Lawanson, Enocent Msindo, Peter Simatei, editors.
Arndt, Susan, editor.; Banhoro, Yacouba, editor.; Lawanson, Taibat, editor.; Msindo, Enocent, editor.; Simatei, Peter, editor.
2023
RA644.C67 C68 2023
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Title Covid-19 in Africa : governance and containment / Susan Arndt, Yacouba Banhoro, Taibat Lawanson, Enocent Msindo, Peter Simatei, editors.
ISBN 9783031361395 electronic book
3031361393 electronic book
9783031361388
3031361385
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36139-5
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 266 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-36139-5 doi
Call Number RA644.C67 C68 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.19624144
Summary 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. Lastly, the Covid-19 pandemic impacted regional trade and other bilateral relations in Africa, creating possibilities for regional entities such as ECOWAS and EAC to demonstrate their creativity (or a lack of it) in dealing with the pandemic. The contributors thus examine the regional dimension of the crisis and particularly evaluate how covid-19 tested the resilience of multilateralism, regional trade networks, cross border informal economies, and human movements. 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.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 7, 2023).
Added Author Arndt, Susan, editor.
Banhoro, Yacouba, editor.
Lawanson, Taibat, editor.
Msindo, Enocent, editor.
Simatei, Peter, editor.
Series African histories and modernities, 2634-5781
Available in Other Form Covid-19 in Africa: Governance and Containment
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1: Introduction
Part 1 : Governance and Containment Measures
2: Coronavirus disease: screening and care pathway in the Nongre Massom health district of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
3: Covid-19 and the politics of (im)mobility in Uganda
4: Beyond Paradoxes: The South African Military Involvement in The Fight Against Covid-19
5: Urban Governance and COVID-19 response in Nigeria: Who is left behind?- 6: "Subsistence Fishermen Don't Exist": The subtleties of categories and accessing water during a Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa
7: Yorùbá Language and Infodemic Management: The COVID-19 Experience
Part 2: Regional Perspectives
8: COVID-19 Containment in East Africa: Science-based Strategies or Traditional-based strategies?- 9: East African Community Partner States' Response to Truckers as High-Risk Group in the Context of Covid-19
10: The Making of Marginal Multilateralism during Covid-19 Response among EAC States: Perspectives from Discursive Institutionalism
11: The COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa: Local Responses and Regional Strategies in West Africa
12: Conclusion.

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