COVID-19: PRESENTING AN EQUITABLE HUMANITY IN AFRICA

Résumé

The incursion of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa made an unquantifiable destruction on the African economy. Beyond the economy, the fear, trepidation and uncertainty that came with the disease, as though the world was coming to an abrupt end, largely because of the lack of adequate knowledge on it. Lives were lost with the accompanying grief, misery, pain, despair and the general sense of loss for families, communities, states and the continent as a whole. COVID-19 has done an irreparable damage to Africa. However, after an analytical consideration of the whole scenario, while considering the negative aspects of the pandemic, it is the position of this paper that COVID-19 accorded the world, Africa in particular, some sort of social equity to the fact that everyone, despite differences in their social classes, were brought to the level of equity and equality. The closure of international borders and the restriction of movements within placed a shared burden of equal grief, despair, pain and uncertainty in life. It also placed on all a collective burden on finding solutions to the disease and the accompanying economic and ethical challenges