This week’s brief episode focuses on what our hosts — Kim Yi Dionne and Rachel Beatty Riedl — are reading and learning related to the COVID-19 pandemic and responses by African governments. There is a lot that has already been written and we share what we think are some important questions and arguments that we as scholars of pandemics and authoritarian politics think our listeners should be thinking about.
Books, Links, & Articles
- ‘It’s Like We’re at War,’ Africa CDC Pledges to Ramp Up Testing for COVID-19.” by Salem Solomon
- “Democracy, authoritarianism and crises.” by Sheri Berman
- Afrobarometer
- “Ethnic Marginalization and (Non)Compliance in Public Health Emergencies.” by Leonardo R. Arriola and Allison N. Grossman
- “Ethiopia has postponed its national elections over coronavirus fears.” by Samuel Getachew
- This Week in Africa Newsletter
- “Mapping the Coronavirus Pandemic in Africa.” by The Elephant Staff
- “Covid map: Coronavirus cases, deaths, vaccinations by country.” by BBC Staff
- “Coronavirus in Africa Tracker: How many covid-19 cases & where? [Latest].” by Covid Tracker
- “COVID-19 in Africa.” by Africa Center Staff
- “Total COVID-19 tests per confirmed case, Apr 3, 2020.” by Our World in Data Staff
- “Addressing a pandemic on a continental level.” by Anna Mwaba
- “Border Promiscuity, Illicit Intimacies, and Origin Stories: Or what Contagion’s Bookends Tell us About New Infectious Diseases and a Racialized Geography of Blame.” by Adia Benton
- “Why Africa’s journalists aren’t doing a good job on COVID-19.” by George Ogola