LEADER 05398nam 22007695 450 001 9910770249903321 005 20251009082248.0 010 $a9783031403163 010 $a3031403169 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-40316-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31023027 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31023027 035 $a(CKB)29414048100041 035 $a(OCoLC)1415892666 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-40316-3 035 $a(EXLCZ)9929414048100041 100 $a20231216d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCovid-19 in Africa: Societal and Economic Implications /$fedited by Susan Arndt, Banhoro Yacouba, Taibat Lawanson, Enocent Msindo, Peter Simatei 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (330 pages) 225 1 $aAfrican Histories and Modernities,$x2634-5781 311 08$a9783031403156 311 08$a3031403150 327 $a1: Introduction: Experiencing Covid-19 in Africa -- Part 1: Discoursing and Narrating the Pandemic -- 2: ?So Much Fear and Unanswered Questions?: Discourses on Covid-19 in Côte d'Ivoire and Cameroon -- 3: Wrathful Gods: Ethnography of Religion, Myths and Interpretations of Coronavirus in Nigeria -- 4: Poetic Verses on COVID-19: Hausa lyricist?s expressions on the pandemic -- 5 : The University of Niamey during Covid-19 : popular perceptions, containment measures and managing Muslim worship -- Part 2: Experiencing and Coping with the Pandemic -- 6: Inequalities, Exclusion and Covid-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 7: Covid-19 and Intersectional Discrimination in Nigeria -- 8 : Islam and Digital Media in Côte d?Ivoire : Countermeasures and Reinvention of Religious Practices during Covid-19 -- 9: Social Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic in Uganda -- 10: The Informal Sector and the Fight Against COVID-19: Insights from Commercial Bus Drivers and Petty Marketers in Lagos, Nigeria -- 11 : Social and economic implications of Covid-19 containment measures in the gold mining industry in Burkina Faso -- Part 3: Pandemic(s) and the Ethics of Care -- 12: ?Staying with the Trouble?: Decolonial Care and Intersectional Responsibility in Knowledge Production in COVID 19 Times -- 13: From Colonial Violence to Bare Life in South Africa: Sexual Violence and Care Ethics. 330 $aWritten amidst the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, this edited volume draws on the expertise of social scientists and humanities scholars to understand the several ramifications of Covid-19 in societies, politics, and the economies of Africa. The contributors examine measures, communicative practices, and experiences that have guided the (inter)action of governments, societies and citizens in this unpredictable moment. Covid-19 tested governments? disaster preparedness as well as exposed governments? attitudes towards the poor and vulnerable. In the same vein, it also tested the agency of the generality of the African populace in the face of containment measures and how these impacted on everyday social, cultural and economic practices of the ordinary peoples. In this vein, our concern is to understand the relationship between growing vulnerability on the one hand and ingenuity of agency on the other, and how both were embodied, narrated and discoursed by the African poor, university students, religious entities, and middle-classes, and those that bore the major brunt of the lockdowns. The volume is thus a useful resource for scholars of Africa, policy makers and those who want to understand Covid-19 in Africa. It provides a multiplicity of perspectives of the pandemic and African responses at different levels of society, economy and the political spectrum. The continental focus of this volume gives room for broader comparative analyses. Lastly, this interdisciplinary work benefits from the input of medical historians, anthropologists, sociologists, linguists, political scientists, literature scholars, urban planners, geographers and others. 410 0$aAfrican Histories and Modernities,$x2634-5781 606 $aAfrica$xHistory 606 $aEthnology$zAfrica 606 $aCulture 606 $aPublic health 606 $aAfrica$xEconomic conditions 606 $aAfrica$xPolitics and government 606 $aAfrican History 606 $aAfrican Culture 606 $aPublic Health 606 $aAfrican Economics 606 $aAfrican Politics 615 0$aAfrica$xHistory. 615 0$aEthnology 615 0$aCulture. 615 0$aPublic health. 615 0$aAfrica$xEconomic conditions. 615 0$aAfrica$xPolitics and government. 615 14$aAfrican History. 615 24$aAfrican Culture. 615 24$aPublic Health. 615 24$aAfrican Economics. 615 24$aAfrican Politics. 676 $a362.19624144 700 $aArndt$b Susan$0603234 701 $aYacouba$b Banhoro$01460348 701 $aLawanson$b Taibat$01426782 701 $aMsindo$b Enocent$01426783 701 $aSimatei$b Peter$01460349 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910770249903321 996 $aCovid-19 in Africa: Societal and Economic Implications$94332900 997 $aUNINA