How Ghana Paid for Its Inequality Sins during COVID-19 Lockdowns

Festival Godwin Boateng (Columbia University), Samuel Ametepey (Independent), Saviour Kusi (Independent), How Ghana Paid for Its Inequality Sins during COVID-19 Lockdowns, AREF Blog Sec. (2022):

It turns out that when you systematically marginalise people, you will have a hard time eliciting their cooperation in containing pandemics. Such evidently was the state of affairs in many African countries where the historically, spatially, economically and socially marginalised urban working class collectively resisted lockdown measures meant to contain the COVID-19 pandemic and navigate towards a less-than disastrous outcome. In this paper, we explore the case of Ghana.