Written amidst the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, this edited volume
draws on the expertise of social scientists and humanities scholars
to understand the many ramifications of Covid-19 on 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 African populace in the face of containment measures
and their impact on everyday social, cultural, and economic
practices of ordinary people. 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, middle-classes, and those who 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.
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