COVID19

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

Bwire, T. (2020, May 11). They Used To Give Their Kids 3 Meals A Day. Then Came Coronavirus. NPR.Org.

AO: This came to my inbox from the NPR newsletter series "Goats and Soda". It was memorable to me because having just participated in this discussion about...Read more

Kihato, C. W., & Landau, L. B. (2020). Coercion or the social contract? COVID 19 and spatial (in)justice in African cities. City & Society, 32(1).

AO: Kihato and Landau discuss in this paper how the pandemic exposes and entrenches broader structural inequities especially in the urban African city. They argue that policy edicts like social distancing, hand washing, lock-downs, curfews and policing further entrench structural injustices.Read more

"COVID-19 Communication and Behavior Change with IDEO"

whatsapp_image_2020-04-07_at_11.05.45_pm.jpeg

Kijiji Yeetu COVID-19 Map of Village Actions

https://kijijiyeetu.co.ke/covid-19/

How is COVID-19 knowledge and expertise moving across national borders? How are researchers outside dominant institutions of knowledge production organising? What new collaborations and synergies are being formed? How are they working?

How is COVID19 impacting and intersecting with mental health? What is being foregrounded and obscured -- as problems, and as needed response?

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

screen_shot_2020-05-26_at_2.48.27_pm.png

Feleke, Bethlehem. 2020. “Kenya Governor under Fire after Putting Hennessy Bottles in Coronavirus Care Packages.” CNN, April 17, 2020.

AO: This article was sent to me by San Francisco-based friends about the controversial Nairobi governor who was putting alcohol in hospital care packages.Read more