Covid-19 in Africa: Societal and Economic Implications

Susan Arndt is Professor of Literature at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. She has published widely on intertextuality, intersectionality, and critical race studies, focussing on British and Anglophone African literatures.

Banhoro Yacouba is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Burkina Faso. He has published on medical histories of Africa. He is the Director of the Joseph Ki-Zerbo’s African Cluster Centre, which is part of African Multiple.

Taibat Lawanson is Professor of Urban Planning and Co-Director of the Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. She researches on social complexities, urban realities and spatial justice.

Enocent Msindo is Dean of Humanities at Rhodes University, South Africa. He is a social and political historian with publications on ethnicity and nationalism, information policy, medical history, and others.

Peter Simatei is Professor of Comparative Literature at Moi University, Kenya. He publishes in the fields of postcolonial studies, Anglophone literature, and Diaspora studies.