This article delineates the material relations, routines and sensorial responses inhabited by people in Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. It grounds views on a discourse of behavioural change while exploring how Ugandans, Kenyans and Rwandans responded to COVID-19 messages populated on selected official government Twitter accounts. The article is a mixed methods study that employs a numeric and discursive analytic approach, with the nudge theory proving particularly congenial. Findings show that a civic nationalism was enunciated in the hinterland. The nomenclature evoked in the wake of enforcing pandemic restrictive measures is both politically and socially repressive. Far from presuming fixed identities, the conceptual thread that is knit together during the pandemic oscillates from broad support to a problem of behavioural fatigue.

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我们是他们吗？乌干达、肯尼亚和卢旺达对 COVID-19 更新响应的跨文化研究

本文描述了第一波冠状病毒大流行期间乌干达、肯尼亚和卢旺达人民的物质关系、惯例和感官反应。它基于行为改变话语的观点，同时探索乌干达人、肯尼亚人和卢旺达人如何回应选定的官方政府 Twitter 账户上填充的 COVID-19 消息。这篇文章是一项混合方法研究，采用了数字和推论分析方法，事实证明，轻推理论特别适合。调查结果表明，公民民族主义在腹地被阐明。在执行大流行限制措施之后引起的命名在政治和社会上都是压制性的。远非假设固定的身份，