In the current global pandemic, there is a lot that can be learned from past epidemics. What is poignantly missing, however, is acknowledgement of local perspectives to disease outbreak and response. Jeremy Allouche and Dienedort Wandji argue we need to better understand how individuals and local communities in Africa, and beyond, have learnt and developed social, cultural and institutional mechanisms to deal with protracted crises.
Angélique Kidjo’s Pata Pata official music video. From Australia to Benin, Japan to Kenya – see if you can spot your country. Spread the dance, not the disease!
“The success of the DontGoViral campaign underlines the resilience and creativity of women and men on the African Continent to harness the power of cultural diversity to effectively combat the infodemic that is proving to be just as viral as the pandemic itself. Their contributions highlight the fact that cultural players are a much-needed part of the solution,” said Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO.
Giuseppe Conte, Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel… Les chefs d’État des nations touchées par le Covid-19 ont tous dû annoncer à la population des mesures inédites pour tenter de freiner la pandémie. Comment la communication de nos dirigeants a-t-elle évolué depuis le début de cette crise ? Explications en vidéo.
Yahoo News: In one skit from the parody adaptation of the long-running Syrian TV drama, ‘Bab al-Hara’, the show’s main character Abu Issam, played by Iraqi artist Mohammad Qassem, scolds his son to ‘put on your mask!’