LEADER 05426nam 22006735 450 001 9910743694903321 005 20251009082200.0 010 $a9783031361395 010 $a3031361393 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-36139-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30724537 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30724537 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-36139-5 035 $a(CKB)28112623200041 035 $a(OCoLC)1396908902 035 $a(EXLCZ)9928112623200041 100 $a20230830d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCovid-19 in Africa: Governance and Containment /$fedited by Susan Arndt, Yacouba Banhoro, Taibat Lawanson, Enocent Msindo, Peter Simatei 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (xxiii, 266 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aAfrican Histories and Modernities,$x2634-5781 311 08$aPrint version: Arndt, Susan Covid-19 in Africa: Governance and Containment Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2023 9783031361388 327 $a1: 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: Yoru?ba? 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. 330 $aWritten 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 workbenefits from the input of medical historians, anthropologists, sociologists, linguists, political scientists, literature scholars, urban planners, geographers and others. 410 0$aAfrican Histories and Modernities,$x2634-5781 606 $aAfrica$xHistory 606 $aAfrica$xPolitics and government 606 $aEthnology$zAfrica 606 $aCulture 606 $aAfrican History 606 $aAfrican Politics 606 $aAfrican Culture 615 0$aAfrica$xHistory. 615 0$aAfrica$xPolitics and government. 615 0$aEthnology 615 0$aCulture. 615 14$aAfrican History. 615 24$aAfrican Politics. 615 24$aAfrican Culture. 676 $a960 676 $a362.19624144 701 $aArndt$b Susan$0603234 701 $aBanhoro$b Yacouba$01426781 701 $aLawanson$b Taibat$01426782 701 $aMsindo$b Enocent$01426783 701 $aSimatei$b Tirop P$g(Tirop Peter)$01434585 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910743694903321 996 $aCovid-19 in Africa$93589396 997 $aUNINA