COVID-19 Outbreak Responses: The Pandemic of Racism Against Africans Living Outside Their Continent

Authors

Emmanuel Lamptey, Institute of Life and Earth Sciences (Including Health and Agriculture), Pan African University, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.Follow
Dooshima Aki Benita, Department of Psychology, Benue State University, Makurdi NigeriaFollow
Evans Osei Boakye, Department of Social Work, University of Ghana, LegonFollow

Abstract

The coronavirus pandemic has heightened racial discriminations and these discriminations are mostly directed toward Africans living outside the continent. One of the dark spots of the pandemic is that it has been a pandemic of racism in which the fundamental rights and freedoms of Africans are trampled upon. Aside from the health challenges and deaths associated with the COVID-19, Africans are the ones suffering the racial abuses, harassment and violent events in public spaces than any other race. This paper highlights and examine the racial discriminations levelled against Africans living in Asia, the main factor that made them vulnerable during the pandemic, the valuable lesions Africans must gather from the pandemic and discusses how the trend can be controlled.

Recommended Citation

Lamptey, Emmanuel; Aki Benita, Dooshima; and Osei Boakye, Evans (2022) "COVID-19 Outbreak Responses: The Pandemic of Racism Against Africans Living Outside Their Continent," Race and Pedagogy Journal: Teaching and Learning for Justice: Vol. 5: No. 3, Article 3.
Available at: https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/rpj/vol5/iss3/3