From "commodities-currencies" to Covid loans: Africa and global inequality, past and present
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9141.rh.2023.203632Keywords:
Africa, Inequality, Covid-19, Humanities, Social sciences, Pandemic responseAbstract
This article focuses on the question of Africa and global inequalities, bridging research in the past with the experience of the present. It argues that frameworks of indebtedness and growing inequalities have characterized the African continent’s relationship with globalization at times of structural socioeconomic crisis. This was true in the early modern period, and can also be seen to characterize the macroeconomic framework of the two years of the covid-19 pandemic. Understanding the pandemic response through a structural and longue durée economic perspective opens up new avenues of interpretation and shows the importance of perspectives from the humanities and social sciences in shaping pandemic responses. Comparative historical approaches, socioeconomic continuities, and the critique of power provided by non-STEM subjects are shown to be vital in shaping a more holistic understanding of the pandemic time, and of how to respond to future pandemics.
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