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“In the Middle Ages, the leper was a social text in which corruption was made visible, an emblem of decay. Nothing is more punitive that to give disease a meaning — the meaning being invariably a moralistic one.”— Susan Sontag, writer and philosopher, in her 1977 essay, Illness as Metaphor. ‘Victim cremated in secret…Tourists help spread… Panic on luxury cruiser…Power to detain victims.” These headlines, brimming with moral panic and describing a new health threat first seen in a group of marginalised communities in the US, could so easily be ascribed to Covid-19. They are i...

By Mashe Umaru Gwamna It was a rare opportunities for residents of 3 communities in Karu local government, when Patriotic Vision Foundation NGO donated food items to them. The NGO in partnership in the Republic of Ireland, shared rice, vegetable oil, salt and magi to over 300 households in those communities. Gombo Aboki a middle aged man who is a second hand cloth seller living at Orozo in Karu, a suburb in the Federal Capital Territory(FCT), said he was overwhelmed and speechless seeing what he thought could never come his way during this COVID-19 pandemic. He said the help came to his do...