COVID19

Dahir, A. L. (2020, May 8). Kenyans Held for Weeks in Quarantine Were Told to Pay to Get Out. The New York Times.

AO: This New York Times article describes the Kenyan government’s aggressive campaign to prevent the spread of the coronavirus which is increasingly critiqued as violating the human rights of those held in mandatory quarantine (and being required to pay fees to be released).Read more

News and Public Discourse on COVID-19 in/from/about Kenya

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How are universities responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, what kind of support have they been given, what problems have emerged, and how are these problems being tracked and responded to?

How is COVID-19 “in Africa” (or “in Kenya”) being mentioned in comparison to other regions? What does the commentator state is unique about the COVID-19 experience in Kenya (or “Africa”)?

Mawazo Institute. 2020. “Survey Findings on the Impact of COVID-19 on Africa’s Higher Education System.” Nairobi, Kenya: Mawazo Institute.

AO: This report foregrounds results from an online survey with 501 respondents conducted by Nairobi-based Mawazo Institute in April 2020.Read more

UoN IDS Event: Paratransit & Covid-19: Using Technology to Track Covid-19 cases in Public Transport

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How is COVID19 impacting ritual order and ritual expectations (e.g. weddings, funerals)?

How are people and organizations sharing information and knowledge about COVID-19? What boundaries (e.g. urban/rural; national; language) are being crossed or further fortified due to these information flows?

Nzuki, M. (2020). Covid-19 makes a strong case for urban farming—Business Daily.

TM: With the lockdown measures instituted by the Government of Kenya to contain COVID 19 spread country wide saw the reduced movement of people and goods in and out of the city. This alonsgide the ensuing lockdown measures on people being more at home may have been the vital key component that...Read more