This article offers a provisional decolonial reading of the crisis created by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The article performs five interrelated tasks. The first task addresses the question of knowledge and theorizing during exceptional moments. A decolonial case is made for seeking mitigations and solutions to COVID-19 based on the African knowledge and epistemologies from the Global South. Africa in particular and the Global South in general have the richest histories and experiences of epidemics and pandemics. This moment of the COVID-19 pandemic raises questions about the geopolitics of knowledge (which historical archive do we run to, who should learn from whom, and which epistemology is privileged?). The second task is to outline how the triple concepts of paradox, crisis, and crossroads (PCC) can help us to gain a better understanding of the issues cascading in this moment of the COVID-19 pandemic. The third task is a critique of lockdowns as knee-jerk reactions in Africa, since they are not sustainable, and they impinge on life, security, freedom, and economy in fragile African environments. The fourth task is to introduce 10 Ds of the decolonial turn —Deimperialization, De-Westernization, Depatriachization, Deracialization, Debourgeoisement, Decorporatization, Democratization, Deborderization, Decanonization, and Desecularization—which help in envisioning a post-COVID-19 decolonial world order. The final task is to propose decolonial love as the soul of the post-COVID-19 world order based on a new ethics for living together, economies of care, a politics of conviviality, and hospitality as opposed to enmity. Africa in particular and the Global South in general constitute the author’s locus of enunciation.

本文提供了对2019年冠状病毒疾病（COVID-19）大流行造成的危机的非殖民化临时解读。本文执行了五个相互关联的任务。第一项任务是在特殊情况下解决知识和理论化问题。根据来自全球南方的非洲知识和认识论，提出了殖民主义的案例，以寻求缓解和解决COVID-19的方法。尤其是非洲，以及总体而言，全球南方拥有最丰富的流行病和大流行病的历史和经验。COVID-19大流行的这一时刻引发了有关知识的地缘政治的问题（我们要去找哪个历史档案馆，谁应该向谁学习，以及哪个认识论有特权？）。第二项任务是概述悖论，危机，十字路口（PCC）可以帮助我们更好地了解在COVID-19大流行的这一时刻中级联的问题。第三项任务是对禁运的批评，因为禁运是非洲的下意识反应，因为这种反应是不可持续的，并且在脆弱的非洲环境中会影响生活，安全，自由和经济。第四项任务是引入非殖民化转变的10个维度-去帝国化，去西方化，去祖国化，种族歧视，去资产阶级化，去世代化，民主化，去边界化，非金属化和非世俗化-这有助于预见COVID-19之后的非殖民化世界秩序。最后的任务是提出殖民时代的爱，作为在COVID-19后世界秩序中的灵魂，其基础是建立新的共同生活道德，谨慎的经济，友善的政治以及与敌对相对的待客之道。