COVID-19, VIOLENCE AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY IN AFRICA: A CALL TO AWAKEN AFRICAN MORAL CONSCIOUSNESS

Abstract

Covid -19 pandemic is a very harsh experience to the world at large and Africa in particular. The strategies to prevent it are at the same time uncomfortable for all and sundry. This harsh experience and falsehood on the part of some agents to distribute relief materials and support from higher and more advanced countries and wealthy institutions, bodies and individuals have made people in different parts of the continent to demonstrate and destroy lives and properties. Based on this finding, the study advocates for the need for Africans to awaken their moral consciousness the way their forebears did in the distant past. It recommends that African studies that can add value to the moral psyche of upcoming African leaders should be made compulsory in both secondary and tertiary institutions. Religious bodies and few academic departments should not be left alone in course of embarking on house-to-house teachings of moral education especially when the Covid-19 problem must have gone. The research introduces historical and hermeneutical research method. Data where gotten from both primary and secondary sources. Data generated were analyzed with phenomenological method of data analysis.