One of the key components in managing the spread of COVID-19 has been limiting physical interactions. At the onset of the pandemic, establishments including businesses and schools were promptly shut down and evacuated in order to curb the spread of the virus. As cases continue to rise with no approved treatment or vaccine, communities have struggled to figure out the best strategy to re-open schools. With the academic year disrupted for students at all ages, we dissect the measures taken in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe in primary and secondary education. We also explore the discrepancies between access to resources within the class divide and how the different governments of the respective countries have responded to the education needs. In this episode, we interviewed Farai Munjoma and Vanessa Chilunda.

Farai is a Zimbabwean education entrepreneur at Shasha Network.He is an African Leadership Academy, African Leadership University alumnus. Farai has also previously been an Anzisha Fellow.

Vanessa Chilunda is a PhD Student at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is the co-founder of Tanzanian based company, Projekt Inspire, that aims at creating career awareness and lightening career paths for youth in STEM. Here we discuss their role in advancing remote learning in STEM in Tanzania.

Mentioned in the episode:
ZBC RADIO LESSONS PROGRAMME SCHEDULE https://www.unicef.org/zimbabwe/zbc-radio-lessons-programme-schedule
Zimbabwe education: School lessons broadcast on the radio https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/07/zimbabwe-education-school-lessons-broadcast-radio-200718142240998.html



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Title: Hip Hop Instrumental 2
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COVID-19 has shown how different issues are connected, and how one injustice exposed another. This episode covers the global pandemic and its gendered implications on access to justice. We speak to Tinatswe Mhaka who is the founder of Feminist Voices Zimbabwe, and a women’s rights lawyer. Her focus is digital storytelling and community outreach in order to tackle access to justice for women in Zimbabwe. In this episode, we cover how government response to COVID-19 has affected access to justice for women, the connections between state violence and sexual violence, and how the economic instability has left children vulnerable.

Mentioned in the episode:

Tinatswe’s Article: https://africanfeminism.com/what-it-is-like-to-be-a-woman-in-a-police-state-zimbabwes-war-on-womens-bodies/
The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls: https://amzn.to/2ZCC1wG


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Title: Hip Hop Instrumental 2
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License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 License

The global COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for effective telehealth services that are effectively integrated with already existing systems and are easily accessible. In this episode we sit down with Munyaradzi Hoto. Munyaradzi is the founder of Text Aid, a digital product that aims to improve the provision of health insurance in developing countries, Text Aid provides real value to health insurance providers, medical service providers, and the patients themselves. In this episode we cover the role of technology in providing health services, the challenges faced by telehealth startups, and the opportunities available.

Textaid:
Website: www.textaid.io


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Title: Hip Hop Instrumental 2
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Diagnostics is an integral part of Public Health management and Drug Discovery. As SARS-COV-2 exponentially spreads through communities across the world, there has been a concerted effort by scientists to develop an effective testing kit. In this episode, we sit down with Dr Christian Happi, a molecular biologist and director of the African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases. We simplify genomics and diagnostic technologies. We also explore the current efforts and challenges by African scientists in developing these technologies and more.

Mentioned in the episode:
COVID-19 testing types https://time.com/5880255/covid-19-tests-types/
CapeBio Technologies: https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/south-africa/2020-06-25-biotech-entrepreneurs-come-up-with-fast-covid-19-testing-kit-in-sa/
https://capebiosa.com/

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Article on Bolstering Africa’s coronavirus detection efforts by Abdullahi Tsanni https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01607-y

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Title: Hip Hop Instrumental 2
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License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 License

The global COVID-19 pandemic has shown how the public health system does not consist only of health service providers, but rather - it is affected by and consists of all other socio-political services. In this episode, featuring Bryan Mukandi, we explore how COVID-19 has affected immigration discourse, the impact of the pandemic on indigenous communities, and how society decides what are “low-skilled” jobs, impacts public health outcomes

Mentioned in the episode:
Stat News Article: https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/30/covid19-death-of-hospital-food-worker-a-microcosm-of-pandemic/

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Blog Article on Thinking Through COVID-19: https://www.bryanmukandi.com/blog/thinking-through-covid-19

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Title: Hip Hop Instrumental 2
Artist: Ketsa (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa)
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License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 License

As new science emerges—informing our understanding of the mode of transmission, the viral structure, the target and the mechanism of action—science communication plays a crucial role in informing public health policies as well as the public’s behavior. In this episode we explore COVID-19 and Drug Discovery with Derek Lowe, a medicinal chemist and author of the drug discovery blog, In the Pipeline.

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Title: Hip Hop Instrumental 2
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License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 License

The dissemination of information about COVID-19 has been one of the key cornerstones in managing the spread of the virus. In this episode we explore COVID-19 and Science Communication with Abdullahi Tsanni, a science journalist from Nigeria.

Links: African Science Literacy Network: https://www.africanscilit.org/
AfricaArXiv: https://info.africarxiv.org/
ALA Student Initiative: https://www.instagram.com/alafortheworld/?igshid=g7cb80r1n1pk

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Title: Hip Hop Instrumental 2
Artist: Ketsa (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa)
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COVID-19 is not just a disease that has changed how we think about scientific issues, but it has also further revealed the broken socio-political structures in our society. In this episode we evaluate the impact of COVID-19 on Gender with Everjoice Win, a Zimbabwean feminist and Professor of Practice at the Center for Gender Studies at SOAS.

Links: Article for Just Associates by Everjoice Win: https://www.justassociates.org/en/blog/stigma-discrimination-kill-soul-what-we-learnt-hiv-aids

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Artist: Chad Crouch (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ch...)
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License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.

Title: Hip Hop Instrumental 2
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This is the trailer for Season One of Taking Into Account, hosted by Desnor Nicole and Rutendo Chabikwa. Taking Into Account is a production of Tedoex Media House.

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License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 License