Vaccine Nationalism and the Future of Research in Africa

The authors explore the various responses of African states and the leadership of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, explaining that sometimes inharmonious national responses reflect expertise, pan-African solidarity, and competition. Vigilantes and civil militias play an increas...

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Published in:African studies review 2021-03, Vol.64 (1), p.1-4
Main Authors: Gastrow, Claudia, Lawrance, Benjamin N.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access to education
African studies
Associative processes
Collaboration
Coronaviruses
COVID-19 vaccines
Disease control
Editor’s Introduction
Education
Essays
Immunization
Insurgency
Leadership
Military operations
Militias
Nationalism
Pandemics
Prevention
Vigilantes
Womens health
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Summary:The authors explore the various responses of African states and the leadership of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, explaining that sometimes inharmonious national responses reflect expertise, pan-African solidarity, and competition. Vigilantes and civil militias play an increasingly collaborative role in military operations, but their rise also speaks to the precarity bequeathed by repeated government failure to control the Boko Haram insurgency. [...]in “‘A nossa lâmpada não se apaga’: The Mnemonic Return of Angola’s Jonas Savimbi,” [https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2020.23] Vasco Martins draws our attention to a curiously disturbing phenomenon.
ISSN:0002-0206
1555-2462
DOI:10.1017/asr.2021.12