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@LivUniPol research project exploring impact & existence of racialised risk narratives for COVID 19 prevention including Black 'immunity myth'

UK/Ghana/Kenya/South Africa
Joined May 2020
china-white.org/images/pdf/W… We were delighted to deliver a paper on our rapid research today at this China White Project @UvA_Amsterdam conference “Racialisation and Social Boundary Making in Times of COVID-19” (still ongoing if you want to join!)
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Colonial Virus? Our project report is now published: COVID-19 & Racialised Risk Narratives in S Africa, Ghana & Kenya liverpool.ac.uk/media/livacu…
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Read more of our findings when we analysed the State and media risk narratives for #COVIDー19 in Kenya, South Africa and Ghana covid19raceandrisk.wordpress…
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liverpool.ac.uk/media/livacu… "Kenyans may have failed to accord the pandemic the seriousness it deserved, in the belief that it is a Caucasian problem" @i_zattu reports on the analysis of #COVIDー19 State & media narratives in Kenya
liverpool.ac.uk/media/livacu… The subtleties of racism/racialisation in a 'postcolonial' country like Ghana can be understood through the lens of 'internalised racism'... Analysis of #COVIDー19 narratives by @NKwartelai @seymahsmith
liverpool.ac.uk/media/livacu… South Africa has sidelined race, as a move not to racialise the #COVIDー19 pandemic, due to the country’s apartheid history. Yet, invisibilising race has deepened resentment in the country, the very experience the State may have desired to avoid @Kiconcoa