Africa faces a double Covid-19 crisis. At once it is a crisis of the pandemic, at another an information framing crisis. This article argues that public health messaging about the pandemic is complicated by a competing mix of framings by a number of actors including the state, the Church, civil society and the public, all fighting for legitimacy. The article explores some of these divergences in the interpretation of the disease and how they have given rise to multiple narratives about the pandemic, particularly online. It concludes that while different perspectives and or interpretations of a crisis is not necessarily wrong, where these detract from the crisis itself and become a contestation of individual and or sector interests, they birth a new crisis. This is the new crisis facing the continent in relation to the pandemic.

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非洲与Covid-19信息框架危机

非洲面临两次Covid-19危机。这一次既是大流行的危机，又一次是信息框架危机。本文认为，关于大流行的公共卫生信息复杂化，包括国家，教会，公民社会和公众在内的许多行为者为合法性而斗争，构成了多种竞争。本文探讨了对疾病的解释中的某些分歧，以及它们如何引起关于大流行的多种叙述，尤其是在网络上。它得出的结论是，虽然对危机的不同观点和/或解释不一定是错误的，但这些观点或解释有损于危机本身并成为个人或部门利益的对立面，但它们却引发了新的危机。这是与大流行有关的非洲大陆面临的新危机。