COVID19

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?

Misinformation: Masks ordered by Germany lost in Kenya

"COVID-19 Communication and Behavior Change with IDEO"

Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Report for Kenya on May 9, 2020

AO: After learning about the Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Data, I searched for what was available on Kenya and was only able to download this PDF which primarily states "there is not enough...Read more

State's aggressive crackdown and lawsuit filed against the government in response

AO: This article describes how the Kenyan government implemented (overly?) aggressive tactics to crackdown on the spread of Coronavirus including mandatory quarantine period and required...Read more

How have different actors responded to COVID-19 and what kinds of counter responses have emerged to that?
Dahir, A. L. (2020, May 8). Kenyans Held for Weeks in Quarantine Were Told to Pay to Get Out. The New York Times.
Analytics for Research Data KE COVID-19 Project

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

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

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

What anxieties and patterns of concern has COVID-19 provoked in different social groups?

Kijiji Yeetu. 2020. "COVID-19 Chronicle."

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

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”)?

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