Total lockdown or not, that’s the big question

Coronavirus (Covid-19) has caused an existential crisis, the likes of which humankind has never seen. Its disruptive nature is unprecedented. Africa has appeared to be behind the curve, seemingly inured to the effects of this ugly pandemic. Many reasons have been advanced. Some have posited that because of infrastructural shortcomings, there has been massive underreporting of the spread on the continent. Others have declared that the richness of melanin in African skin has acted as a buffer against Covid-19.