Rethinking African Futures after COVID-19

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dc.contributor.authorMüller-Mahn, Detlef
dc.contributor.authorKioko, Eric
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-14T08:41:56Z
dc.date.available2023-04-14T08:41:56Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.descriptionArticleen_US
dc.description.abstractThis article focuses on the impact of COVID-19 in Africa, describes its effects for ongoing research, and asks how it may impact African studies. In Africa, as elsewhere in the world, the pandemic is changing the way people think about the future. The crisis gives rise to a feeling of uncertainty, while casting doubt on future orientations based on forecasts and planning. This scepticism does not concern the African continent alone, but it is here that the call to open a fresh perspective on the future is expressed most emphatically. COVID-19 reinvigorates the question of how African futures are imagined and shaped in relation to the world at large. Against this backdrop, this article suggests three areas where future-oriented African studies should be revised in response to the current crisis – namely, how to incorporate uncertainty, how to decolonise understandings of African futures, and how to translate these considerations into research practice.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipDFG, Collaborative Research Center (CRC-TRR 228) "Future Rural Africa"en_US
dc.identifier.citationMüller-Mahn, D., & Kioko, E. (2021). Rethinking African futures after COVID-19. Africa Spectrum, 56(2), 216-227.en_US
dc.identifier.otherDOI: 10.1177/00020397211003591
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/25196
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSAGE Publications Sage UK: London, Englanden_US
dc.subjectAfricaen_US
dc.subjectpandemicen_US
dc.subjectuncertaintyen_US
dc.subjectfuturingen_US
dc.subjectanticipatory governanceen_US
dc.subjectAfrican studiesen_US
dc.titleRethinking African Futures after COVID-19en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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