The impacts of Covid policy responses in Africa: The Covid Consensus one year on

Abstract

[...]although I did try to make references to Foucault’s biopower framework, which Hannah alludes to (in mentions of Giorgio Agamben’s work on the pandemic), I certainly did not develop these ideas fully. Since publication, I have become aware of other elements that I certainly would have included had I had more time for research. [...]of writing (December 12), data shows that Covid-19 has killed around 225,000 people on the African continent in almost two years, whereas roughly 9 million people die in Africa every year. 172,500 of these deaths have occurred in just 6 countries: [...]the total recorded Covid-deaths in the rest of the continent are less than 55,000. [...]all this to treat a disease that, as the mortality figures discussed above show, is less severe in Africa than existing endemic diseases on the continent. Since the book came out, I have conducted interviews for Collateral Global that confirm this analysis.