Tag: Africa

AMAA on Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World

Post author Cal Biruk
Post date December 8, 2021

This article is part of the following series: Ask-Me-Almost-Anything (AMAA): Centering Student Engagement with Ethnographic Monographs

Questions developed by the members of CU Denver’s ANTH4600/5600, S2021: Kaylynn Aiona, Delilah Chavarria, Darcy Copeland, Keaton Green, Ari Jones, Caitlin Konchan, Chris Kuelling, Kuba Kwiecinski, Rosa Lawrence, Destinee Murray, Alexa Powell, Benin Rahma, George Sanchez, Emma Vittetoe, Renee Watson, and Abby Welch

Instructor’s note: In our era of “alternative facts,” and given the critical roles that data collection and …

Tags Africa, Demography, Knowledge Production, Malawi, Positionality, Science & Technology Studies (STS)

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Intersections of Political Power, Religion, and Public Health in Africa: Covid-19, Tanzanian President Magufuli, and Nigerian Prophet T. B. Joshua

Post author Laura A. Meek
Post date November 12, 2021

This article is part of the following series: Contested Truths

This is the final piece in the Contested Truths series, which has been edited by Jia Hui Lee, Laura A. Meek, and Jacob Katumusiime Mwine-Kyarimpa. This series analyzes the manufacturing, circulation, and interpretation of contested truths over Covid-19 in Africa, including the ways in which official, institutional, and/or scientific facts and recommendations about COVID-19 are challenged, ignored, or subverted …

Tags Africa, COVID-19, Magufuli, Politics, postcoloniality, Public health, Religion, T.B. Joshua, Tanzania

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Handling Contested Truths in Times of Crises: Ghana’s COVID-19 Experience

Post author Ignatius G.D Suglo and Hagan Sibiri
Post date July 7, 2021
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This article is part of the following series: Contested Truths

As the pandemic ravages the rest of the world, the casualty rate in Africa remains a mystery to those who predicted doom for the continent. Given African countries’ past experiences with infectious diseases, public health officials at the United Nations, aid agencies, media, and some experts predicted that the continent would be the most vulnerable and susceptible …

Tags Africa, COVID-19, Ghana, Information, pandemic response, social media, statecraft, vaccine hesitancy

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‘Silicon health’ for Africa: Understanding the rise and impact of drone logistics

Post author René Umlauf
Post date May 20, 2021

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), better known as drones, are on the rise. During the ongoing corona crisis their potential to either monitor curfews or to provide contactless deliveries is increasingly featured in various media outlets and discussed in policy circles.^[1] A focus on health-related issues harkens back to earlier attempts to render drones – a military technology – productive …

Tags Africa, finance, Ghana, Global health, Logistics, Military, Political economy of health care, Rwanda, Technology

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Lightning strikes, or how an object of global health is made

Post author Megan Vaughan
Post date April 15, 2021

When we were children my mother always told us there was nothing to fear from thunderstorms. But it was hard not to notice that she did so whilst running around the house disconnecting every electrical appliance. She compared her “sensible” approach to the superstitious excesses of her own mother who, at the sound of rumbling thunder, would gather the cutlery …

Tags Africa, Global health, Knowledge Production, Malawi, South Africa, Swaziland, weather

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Contested Truths over COVID-19 in Africa: Introduction

Post author Jia Hui Lee, Laura A. Meek and Jacob Katumusiime Mwine-Kyarimpa
Post date March 17, 2021

This article is part of the following series: Contested Truths

One of the most significant challenges to confronting and mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic concerns the manufacturing, circulation, and interpretation of what we call “contested truths.” By this term, we mean the many and varied ways in which official, institutional, and/or scientific facts and recommendations about COVID-19 are challenged, ignored, or subverted at multiple scales, from the individual to the state. …

Tags Africa, COVID-19, Epistemology, Ontology, political imaginaries, science