Africa Seminar: The Politics of Pandemics in Africa

CAS invites you to join us, for the first Africa Seminar of the semester titled “The Politics of Pandemics in Africa”

In this very timely lecture in the era of COVID-19, Dr Simukai Chigudu will draw on his previous research and writing on Zimbabwe’s devastating cholera epidemic in 2008, and on other African examples of epidemics and pandemics (including Ebola and HIV/Aids) to reflect on the broader politics of pandemics in Africa.

Dr. Simukai Chigudu is Associate Professor of African Politics at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford. His first book, The Political Life of an Epidemic: Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe, is a study of the socio-political causes and consequences of Zimbabwe’s catastrophic cholera outbreak of 2008/09. He was awarded the biennial Audrey Richards Prize for the best doctoral thesis in African Studies examined at a UK university. He is the author of several articles in leading academic journals including African Affairs, Critical African Studies, and Health Policy and Planning. He worked as a medical doctor before moving into academia.

Register for this event, by sending an email to [email protected]