Global Podd 40. Corona – An African success story

Global Podd 40. Corona – An African success story  The African continent accounts for 17 per cent of the global population, but only 3.5 per cent of reported Covid-19 deaths worldwide. What's more, Africa's overall infection rate has been dropping steadily over the past two months. What’s behind the continent’s success?  What role does music have - and what can Europe and the US learn from Africa? Episode 40 takes on Covid-19 in Africa and how a continent succeeded in keeping Covid at bay through music. Listen to: Bobi Wine, musician and president candidate in Uganda. Dipo Oyeleye, researcher from Nigeria, currently at University of Wisconsin, writing his thesis on covid songs. Chibuzo Okonta MD and director of Doctors Without Borders in West Africa. Patience Mususa, environmental anthropologist specialising on mining and human settlement, researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute. Moderators and editors: Ylva Bergman and David Isaksson