Africa: Medical Colonialism - Pandemic Impacts and Vaccine Delivery

[African Arguments] The past months have seen the Covid debate shift decisively to the question of vaccines. The inequality of access to vaccines has been truly staggering.[1] Rich nations have virtually required younger citizens to be vaccinated against a disease of which very few young people are at risk, thereby hoarding vaccines and preventing equal access in poor countries. And yet what is also staggering is the way in which the Covid debate is framed entirely through the medical eyes of rich countries.