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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.
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.
This book features writing by 17 authors from Germany and from
African and Latin American countries on highly diverse aesthetic
phenomena as seen from their own different points of view. The
texts in this volume all deal with the imperative of
‘decolonization’: they try to highlight aesthetic strategies
for the (re)discovery of unthematized, misappropriated,
transcultural and even transcontinental histories and memories and
aesthetic practices that are absent from or too little perceived
within national consciousnesses. Novels, poems and musical
performances from the East African region are analysed as
intertwined histories of the Indian Ocean and its different
languages. Artworks of the Black Atlantic and perceptions of Africa
are discussed from, for example, Brazilian perspectives. Within the
German context, decolonisation strategies in exhibition practices
in ethnological or art museums developed by Nigerian artists are
evaluated; new terms such as ‘dividuation’ are proposed to
describe these contemporary composite-cultural entanglements, and
so on. A stimulating, wide-ranging and heterogeneous portrait of
contemporary interwoven world cultures!
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