ABSTRACT

During the COVID-19 crisis in Africa, several contradictory discourses have tried to predict how the continent will experience the pandemic. Based on a qualitative approach, this article goes beyond generalized and arbitrary predictions and analyzes how three countries in the Great Lakes region of Africa have managed the pandemic. We first analyze which measures the respective governments of the three countries – and their decentralized authorities – have taken. We also analyze up to which extend international prescriptions – as propagated by the World Health Organization – have influenced their choices. Second, we analyze how government measures have transformed throughout implementation and interacted with the specific circumstances of each context. Authorities, on the one hand, navigated between rigid and more flexible interpretation of national prescriptions, entering into practical arrangements or adopting force. Populations on the other hand have resorted to acceptance, circumvention, contestation or resistance. Our research ultimately points to the way in which political dynamics, resistance, violence, and local redefine both national policies and their international reference frames. In this way, the governance dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic in the African Great Lakes region provide a lens through which we can complexify our understandings of real governance in Africa.

摘要

在非洲的COVID-19危机期间，一些相互矛盾的论述试图预测非洲大陆将如何经历这种大流行。基于定性方法，本文超越了一般性和任意性的预测，并分析了非洲大湖地区的三个国家如何应对这种流行病。我们首先分析一下这三个国家的政府及其权力下放的当局采取了哪些措施。我们还分析了由世界卫生组织传播的国际处方扩展到哪些方面，影响了他们的选择。其次，我们分析了政府措施在整个实施过程中是如何转变的，并与每种情况的具体情况相互影响。一方面，当局 在对国家处方的僵化和更灵活的解释之间进行导航，达成实际安排或采用武力。另一方面，人们诉诸于接受，规避，竞争或抵抗。我们的研究最终指出了政治动态，抵抗，暴力和地方重新定义国家政策及其国际参考框架的方式。这样，非洲大湖区COVID-19大流行的治理动态提供了一个视角，通过它我们可以使我们对非洲真正治理的理解更加复杂。抵抗，暴力和地方重新定义了国家政策及其国际参考框架。这样，非洲大湖区COVID-19大流行的治理动态提供了一个视角，通过它我们可以使我们对非洲真正治理的理解更加复杂。抵抗，暴力和地方重新定义了国家政策及其国际参考框架。这样，非洲大湖区COVID-19大流行的治理动态提供了一个视角，通过它我们可以使我们对非洲真正治理的理解更加复杂。