Challenging Discourse and Searching for Alternative Paths: Justice, Human Rights and Leadership in Africa

Benyera, Everisto; Francis, R. Douglas; Jazbhay, Ahmed Haroon

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“…In seeking a response to whether Africa should face the West or the East, Nkrumah once answered emphatically and from a decolonial perspective that Africa must face forward. Africa needs ethical, just and nationalist leaders (Benyera, Francis, and Jazbhay 2020). If a nationalist loves her/his country, then the absence of the Covid-19 vaccine provided by Africans renders Africans unnationalistic.…”

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Covid-19 Vaccine Nationalism and Vaccine Diplomacy: A New Currency in Soft Power?

Benyera¹

2022

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This article merges and examines the following four phenomena, (1) pandemics which are predominantly a human security matter, (2) vaccines and vaccinations, which are predominantly a public health matter, (3), power which is the alpha currency in international relations and, (4), fi nally ideology. Global developments such as wars, revolutions and pandemics usually give rise to new forms of power, redrawing power confi gurations and in some cases shift ing and redrawing biographical and geographical boundaries. This article explores the rise of vaccine nationalism and how it will impede the global eff orts to curtail the devastation of the Covid-19 pandemic. I also present the Covid-19 vaccine as a new currency in soft power that, unlike hard power, is owned by an emerging vaccine oligarchy epitomised as Big Pharma. Vaccine nationalism is positioned as being counterproductive to eff orts to reduce the eff ects of the virus. This way, vaccine nationalism and vaccine diplomacy constitute new forms of and fronts for colonialism. I conclude by asserting that vaccine nationalism will result in more asymmetrical power relations in international relations as the vaccine will gradually become a new form of soft power. As a form of soft power, the vaccine will entrench and perpetuate coloniality. Vaccine nationalism and vaccine diplomacy are self-defeating, will aid those paddling eugenics and result in a new form of inequality, vaccine inequality.

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Section: Which Way Africa: West's Vaccine Capitalism or The East's Va...mentioning

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Covid-19 Vaccine Nationalism and Vaccine Diplomacy: A New Currency in Soft Power?

Benyera¹

2022

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On the Elusiveness of Epistemic Freedom in Africa and the Need to Unmask the Colonial Contract

Benyera¹

2021

Africa and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Africa: A Cure Which Kills the Patient

Benyera

2021

Africa and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

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Challenging Discourse and Searching for Alternative Paths: Justice, Human Rights and Leadership in Africa

Cited by 3 publications

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Covid-19 Vaccine Nationalism and Vaccine Diplomacy: A New Currency in Soft Power?

Covid-19 Vaccine Nationalism and Vaccine Diplomacy: A New Currency in Soft Power?

On the Elusiveness of Epistemic Freedom in Africa and the Need to Unmask the Colonial Contract

The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Africa: A Cure Which Kills the Patient

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