Some African countries are choosing livelihoods over lockdowns - The Mail & Guardian

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Some African countries are choosing livelihoods over lockdowns - The Mail & Guardian
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OPINION: The methods that work in Western nations rarely translate into African contexts.

, because to do in a country that is one of the poorest in the world, with more than 80% of the country’s population engaged in subsistence farming, would have meant risking people’s lives to poverty at a faster rate than Covid-19.

“African governments should remember that the logic behind implementing lockdowns in the West, unfortunately, does not apply in Africa,”.

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