The global epistemological gendarmerie do not only police epistemologies but they also infect the world with infectious epidemics of laughter targeted at those people whose epistemologies are offhandedly condemned as sterile and useless in controlling and containing pandemics. Patrolling epistemic borders in ways that demobilise indigenous epistemologies, the global epistemological policemen have ironically managed to prevent "transgressive" epistemologies from crossing borders but they have fatally failed to prevent the transgressive COVID-19 from recurrently crossing borders, be they bodily, national or continental. Brandishing fetishised degree and diploma certificates, African comprador academics, who are more interested in fetishised ranks and titles than in creativity and innovation, have also fatally failed to help African communities by producing vaccines for Africans by Africans. Arguing that Eurocentric epistemologies have become sterile fetishes, the book contends that such epistemologies have disabled African scholars from actively producing vaccines on a continent where there are paradoxically more epidemics of mimetic laughter than there are efforts at creativity and innovation. The book is useful for scholars in sociology, anthropology, development studies, languages and communication, natural sciences, historical studies and social work.

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Preface: COVID-19 Letter to the President
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Chapter 1 - Kupembedza N’anga Inobata Amai? Conceptualising Global Epistemological Policemen - A Decolonial Introduction
Chapter 2 - COVID-19 Vaccine Invention and Ignorant Experts in African Universities: A Critique of Epistemic Hegemony and Intellectual Begging
Chapter 3 - Cultural Imperialism, Indigenous Health Delivery Systems and COVID-19 Vaccination Scepticism in Zimbabwe
Chapter 4 - Mediating Indigenous and Western Knowledge Systems in the COVID-19 Response: Lessons from Selected African Countries
Chapter 5 - The Efficacy and Effectiveness of New COVID-19 Vaccines to the Old, New and Yet Unknown Variants: A Tale of Too Many Unknowns
Chapter 6 - Beshamupengo or Dzihwamupengo (COVID-19) and the Rebirth of African Medicine
Chapter 7 - “Experts” and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Epistemic Responsibilities in Researching, Manufacturing and Supplying of COVID-19 Vaccines in Africa
Chapter 8 - Why There Have Not Been Any COVID-19 Vaccines Produced in African Universities
Chapter 9 - The “New Normal” Learning and Teaching Modes in Educational Institutions in the COVID(ized) Era: An Appraisal of Zimbabwe and Botswana
Chapter 10 - African Epistemologies: Fears and Contestations Around the COVID-19 Pandemic in Zimbabwe
Chapter 11 - A Political and Economic Endgame? COVID-19 and Politics in Zimbabwe
Chapter 12 - Foreign Vaccines, Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Decoloniality in Zimbabwe: The Case of the 1918 Spanish Influenza and COVID-19 Pandemic
Chapter 13 - Culture, Physical/Social Distancing and Social Work Interventions in COVID-19 Afflicted Kenya
Chapter 14 - African Languages and Cultures in the Production of COVID-19 Vaccines
Chapter 15 - Relegation of Indigenous Languages in the Fight Against the COVID-19 Pandemic
Chapter 16 - COVID-19 Pandemic and the Epistemological Policemen: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Selected African Presidential Speeches
Chapter 17 - Tiers of Pandemics: Discoursing Language, Knowledge and Culture for Pandemics’ Resolutions in Africa
Chapter 18 - Galvanising the Arts, Music and the Media in Mediating COVID-19 Vaccinations in Zimbabwe’s Post-February 2021 Era
Chapter 19 - The Impacts of COVID-19 on Music Performances in Zimbabwe: Implications for Knowledge Dissemination
Chapter 20 - Evil Eyes, Technological Implants, Witchcraft Substances and Epidemics of Laughter in 21st Century Africa
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