When the pandemic swept the world in 2020, then-President of Tanzania, J. P. J. Magufuli, declared the country «Covid-19 free». His peculiar pandemic policy had no equals worldwide. However, that counter-current approach, albeit questionable, warrants scrutiny, as it was based on considerations about the country’s poor health system and economy.

«Covid-19 Doesn’t Exist in Tanzania»: A Pandemic Phenomenology Observed from Zanzibar

Barbara DE POLI
2023-01-01

Abstract

When the pandemic swept the world in 2020, then-President of Tanzania, J. P. J. Magufuli, declared the country «Covid-19 free». His peculiar pandemic policy had no equals worldwide. However, that counter-current approach, albeit questionable, warrants scrutiny, as it was based on considerations about the country’s poor health system and economy.
2023
97
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