A test of dignity: an anthropological look at the responses to Covid-19 in West Africa

Seen from Africa and lived in Africa. It is this double reading that indulges the three authors whose anthropological analysis allows us to a salutary perspective in the way the Covid-19 pandemic has been apprehended by populations, scientists and politicians. She offers also - and perhaps above all - a detailed reading of the representations mobilized as claims of dignity that were expressed.