Most discussions about Africa’s reaction to COVID-19 are being positioned at the national point, focusing on the role of formal state authorities. However, the role of “public authorities” is less well known: classical leaders, self-help groups, kinship networks. , pro associations, faith-based groups, civil society organizations, multinational corporations, humanitarian agencies, organized criminal gangs, militias and rebels. These function under the national point and are vital in spaces where the state is weak or absent.
To explore this gap, researchers from the Center for Public Authority and International Development were asked to provide vignettes of pandemic life and government responses in places they know intimately: northern Uganda, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Sierra Leone. .
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Key results
The evidence provided by our researchers is often anecdotal, unclear and, in some cases, probably contradictory. However, interrupt and replace patterns appear in at least five forms.
These emerging trends underscore the importance of the role and reaction of public government (and not just the state), either in terms of responding to COVID-19 and interpreting its long-term legacy.
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