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Little research has addressed the charitable activities of Africa's corporate sector in the context of COVID-19. Focusing on the Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID), a Nigerian organized private sector initiative to support government's response to COVID-19, we explore lessons and challenges for Africa's corporate philanthropic efforts to address the region's development concerns. While CACOVID cannot be fully divorced from the profit-making impulse of leading Nigeria's private sector brands, it generated significant resources which helped to advance the Nigerian government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Emerging lessons from CACOVID include the significance of credible leadership for Africa-led and -owned philanthropy; the immense philanthropic potential of Nigeria's organized private sector; the continued indifference of local philanthropy to the root causes of marginality and inequity; and the potential risks for similar charitable schemes from ignoring traditional African norms of giving and relying on ungainly and politicized state structures to deliver their activities. Initiatives such as CACOVID would benefit from greater transparency and accountability not just to their initiators, but also, and more importantly, to those whom they purport to serve.

There is growing interest in the development of measures and indexes of youth wellbeing. However, there has been a limited discussion on indicators to measure and select them. This paper reports on the results of a qualitative study on the selection of indicators to measure the wellbeing of young people in South Africa, and reflects on the relevance of the content of their values in choosing indicators for measuring their wellbeing. The data used in this analysis is based on telephone (9) and email (6) interviews conducted with 15 young people (male=5, female=10) aged 22 to 32 from five South African cities during July 2010. In the interviews, participants were asked to identify five issues they considered important to their lives, after which they were asked to rank them in order of importance. The issues indicated by the participants are described and discussed in six dimensions: economic, relationships, spiritual and health, education, time use and material. The indicators developed from this study are discussed in terms of their relevance for use in a measure of youth wellbeing in South Africa.