Non-Essential Humans, is both a critical documentation and commentary on the world that Covid-19 created. It focuses on the diametric, but supposedly harmonious ways in which the state on the one hand, and the governed on the other, responded to their progressively altering and scary worlds. While the Ugandan state ventured wantonly, ordinary folks-the so-called "vulnerable poor"-struggled to cope, survive and understand the anti-Covid measures that were not only scientifically inexplicable, and terribly inconsistent but also disconnected from their local context.... these essays are a serious, authoritative, brutally honest, beautifully written, and thoroughly readable critique of the real world of our politics...Robert Spin Mukasa, Editor, The Observer.
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Non-essential humans
Essays on Governance, Ruin and Survival in COVID-19 Uganda
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- Front cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgement
- 1 INTRODUCTION
- 2 Controlling Covid-19: Communicating a threat or coercing consent?
- 3 Covid-19 tragedy in theatres in Kampala: When jokes about a disaster are more frightening than the disaster itself
- 4 The next crisis is choosing between livelihood and safety
- 5 How Covid-19 thrives on the suspicious relationship between states and the people
- 6 Covid-19 food as politics
- 7 Dr Spire Ssentongo, other quarantineers, and how states coerce consent
- 8 You are on Your own: Some reflections on the shifting logics to social policy in Uganda
- 9 Reporting the Pandemic I
- 10 Who actually are these essential persons – and us the non-essentials?
- 11 In the new Covid-world order, the opposition must comply
- 12 The legend of Francis Zaake
- 13 The difficult life of an essential lawyer
- 14 Why are Museveni Covidaddresses messy?
- 15 Whose children are these darkhearted LDUs?
- 16 My salute to John Pombe Magufuli
- 17 My Salute to comics with Covid jokes
- 18 As we await our first Covid-19 death, the ground might be full already
- 19 Reporting the Pandemic II
- 20 They have no children in Ugandan schools, our pain isn’t their pain
- 21 If Covidex had been invented in Europe or North America
- 22 Why Museveni lockdowns are dangerous copy-and-paste gambles
- 23 Who conned Museveni that locked-down kids are at home avoiding Covid?
- 24 Not just the half-science of continued school closure, but the conflicting logics of easement
- 25 EPILOGUE
- Back cover
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