COVID-19 and Africa
A series of interviews by Folashadé Soulé and Camilla Toulmin with African leaders on the pandemic.
We Need to Learn From the Fight Against HIV/AIDS—and Its Mistakes—to Tackle COVID-19
An interview with INET Global Commissioner Winnie Byanyima
Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, OBE, Freetown City Council, Sierra Leone
“We’re building a data system, because you can’t really manage a city if you don’t know who’s there and what’s in it.”
Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa
“Equitable COVID19 vaccine distribution is a very important issue of global solidarity”
African Youth Lead Response to COVID-19
Chioma Agwuegbo of TechHer Nigeria, talks to Folashadé Soulé and Herbert Mba Aki about how the pandemic is impacting young people in Nigeria, especially young women, and how African youth are tackling the crisis.
Professor Njuguna Ndung’u: COVID-19 is a wake-up call to reform the healthcare system and make it inclusive for all
In this conversation with Folashadé Soulé and Camilla Toulmin, Pr Njuguna Ndung’u, a Kenyan economist, Director of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), a pan-African organization devoted to the advancement of economic policy research and training in sub-Saharan Africa, and former Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya (2007-2015) analyses how the pandemic creates more fragility in African economies, but also how reforms could be implemented during this crisis; and the urgent need for investment in strong health institutional capacities