Debating Ideas is a new section run separately from the main African Arguments site. It aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It will offer debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from the African Arguments books.
Everyone should have a fighting chance of surviving this coronavirus. Social changes control the power of the response, since the epidemiology of Covid-19 is worse than for Ebola. Medical biotechnology changes can be crucial to individuals' survival, if they are given enough time before they are infected. The response to Covid-19 in Africa can do this.
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