Introduction The prolonged Covid-19 lockdown in Uganda is exacting a huge toll on the people’s resilience. Although the pandemic is global, it is experienced differentially in various countries and locales around the…
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Covid-19 in Africa
Between Religious Freedom and the Public Good: Reactions to Religious Restrictions to Prevent the Spread of Covid-19 in Nigeria
by Jacinta Chiamaka Nwaka
Background: Covid-19 in Nigeria Nigeria confirmed its first case of Covid-19 on February 27, 2020, when an Italian citizen on a business trip from Milan who had arrived in Lagos on February 25 tested positive for the virus. By March 22, when governments at both the federal and state levels began to intensify measures to […]
Covid-19 in Africa
Violence against Women and Girls in the Shadow of Covid-19: Insights from Africa
by Dr. Titilope F. Ajayi
Activists, journalists, and the United Nations (UN) have drawn attention to a so-called shadow pandemic, an allusion to rising global levels of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against women and girls, as a result of Covid-19 and state responses to it. Reports by global media highlight the situation in Europe, but Africa is not exempt. […]
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Sub-Saharan Africa Will Most Likely Ride Out the Covid-19 Storm
by Duncan Omanga and Bartholomew Ondigo
Amid the ongoing Covid-19 carnage, there are fears that Africa will be blown apart by the virus. World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus issued a chilling warning to African countries: “The best advice for Africa is to prepare for the worst.” It was not an idle warning. Africa has been the stage […]
Covid-19 in Africa
Dealing with a Global Pandemic in an Interconnected World
by Admire Mare
As the world continues to search for biomedical and social solutions to mitigate the spread and effects of the fast-spreading global Covid-19 pandemic, I found myself, like other social scientists across the globe, reading more about sociological theories of health care and diseases. Covid-19 has not only overstretched the existing boundaries of scientific inquiry, it […]
Reflections on the SSRC-SFCG Conference and Consultations with Policy Makers and Practitioners
Reflections on the Two-Day Conference and Policy Forums in Washington, DC, March 5-6, 2020
by Pamela Chepngetich Mainye
On March 5 and 6, 2020 I was given the opportunity to be part of the Social Science Research Council’s (SSRC) African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and Search for Common Ground’s (SFCG) conference on “Rethinking Approaches to Chronic Crises in Africa: American and African Perspectives,” followed by a day of consultations with government agencies and think […]
Reflections on the SSRC-SFCG Conference and Consultations with Policy Makers and Practitioners
Reflections on the Washington, DC Conference and Consultations, March 5-6, 2020
by Christelle Amina Djouldé
I was honored to be a part of a panel on “Understanding Chronic Crisis,” featuring myself and two other African Peacebuilding Network (APN) alumni, Titilope Ajayi and Pamela Chepngetich, at a conference on “Rethinking Approaches to Chronic Crises in Africa: American and African perspectives.” The conference was organized by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) […]
Reflections on the SSRC-SFCG Conference and Consultations with Policy Makers and Practitioners
Reflections on the Washington, DC Advocacy Trip, March 5-6, 2020