The whole world was virtually not prepared for COVID-19. The medical remedy was understandably unavailable. So, Europeans, Americans, and similar regions of the world fell back on their traditional approaches to disruptive events of the type that COVID-19 represents. Many African countries would be largely led to mechanically copy the template of these other regions to varying degrees irrespective of the often starkly different economic, political, and social milieus that confront them. This article examines the policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic by African political office holders and the politics of COVID-19 remedy in Africa as scenes for the enactment of cultural racism and biomedical imperialism. Relying on the theoretical frameworks of cultural racism and postcolonialism, the article interrogates what happened with Africa’s policy response and attempts to find a home-grown remedy to the global COVID-19 pandemic as reflections of the underlying patterns of relationalities that determine the behavior of those in leadership positions under normal times—a pattern that only appears in stark relief under the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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非洲的 COVID-19 大流行、“复制粘贴”政策和“治愈”的生物医学霸权

全世界几乎没有为 COVID-19 做好准备。可以理解的是，无法获得医疗补救措施。因此，欧洲人、美国人和世界上的类似地区重新采用了传统方法来应对 COVID-19 所代表的那种破坏性事件。许多非洲国家将在很大程度上被引导在不同程度上机械地复制这些其他地区的模板，而不管它们面临的经济、政治和社会环境往往截然不同。本文探讨了非洲政治官员对 COVID-19 大流行的政策反应以及非洲 COVID-19 补救措施的政治作为文化种族主义和生物医学帝国主义制定的场景。依托文化种族主义和后殖民主义的理论框架，