Overview
- Offers a multiplicity of perspectives that enable readers to gain varied views of the pandemic and its impact
- Presents several disciplinary approaches
- Provides deep comparative analysis
Part of the book series: African Histories and Modernities (AHAM)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Governance and Containment Measures
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Regional Perspectives
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Susan Arndt holds a PhD in African Literature from Humboldt University, Berlin. She served as co-founding director of the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies. She has published widely on intertextuality, intersectionality and critical race studies, focussing on British and anglophone African Literatures.
Yacouba Banhoro holds a PhD in African History at the University of Hamburg in Germany in 2005. He is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University Joseph Ki-Zerbo of Ouagadougou. He has several publications on the history of Health and Diseases in Africa. He is the Director of the Joseph Ki-Zerbo University’s African Cluster which is part of the African Multiple, a scientific cooperation program between the University of Bayreuth and 4 African Universities.
Taibat Lawanson holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria. She is an Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Co-Director of the Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. She is an urban development specialist whose research focuses on the interface of social complexities, urban realities and the pursuit of spatial justice in Africa.
Enocent Msindo obtained a PhD in African History from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. He is currently the Dean of Humanities at Rhodes University, South Africa. He is a social and political historian who has published widely on issues of Ethnicity; information policy; and other aspects of African history.
Peter Simatei is a Professor of Comparative Literature at Moi University, Kenya. He has a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He works in the broad fields of postcolonial studies, Anglophone literature, and Diaspora studies. He has published widely in the area.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Covid-19 in Africa: Governance and Containment
Editors: Susan Arndt, Yacouba Banhoro, Taibat Lawanson, Enocent Msindo, Peter Simatei
Series Title: African Histories and Modernities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36139-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36138-8Published: 31 August 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36141-8Due: 01 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-36139-5Published: 30 August 2023
Series ISSN: 2634-5773
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5781
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 266
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: African History, African Politics, African Culture