Social distancing is a valid containment solution for the novel coronavirus, but it is a solution that doesn’t grasp a reality that is extremely widespread across Africa: people survive difficulty by coming together as communities of care, not pulling apart in a retreat into individualism. The World Health Organization is promoting social distancing as an essential response to this pandemic, forgetting that there are many parts of the world where this single solution is contextually inadequate or even dangerous.  It’s time for us Nigerians to start thinking about solutions that are not based on the legitimate fears of other nations, but on our own established realities.

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