Abstract

DIAS PEREIRA, Luiz Felipe. Unraveling Africa’s “mystery”: “afropessimism” as the hegemonic discourse in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Foro int [online]. 2023, vol.63, n.1, pp.133-167.  Epub Mar 17, 2023. ISSN 0185-013X.  https://doi.org/10.24201/fi.v63i1.2947.

This research focuses on the performance of African countries with regard to public health policies in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2021). The main argument is that the response of African countries to the pandemic and the low number of deaths on the African continent in general made explicit a contradiction in the hegemonic discourse regarding African states’ capacity to act effectively in the face of the threat of the virus. The theoretical framework includes post-structuralist and post-colonial approaches of International Relations and the methodology consists of discourse analysis.

Keywords : Africa; COVID-19; International Relations (IR); post-structuralism; post-colonialism.

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