‘The Disease of the Rich’: Containment Measures and Cashing in on Covid-19 in Kenya from March 2020 to March 2021
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Claire Médard, « ‘The Disease of the Rich’: Containment Measures and Cashing in on Covid-19 in Kenya from March 2020 to March 2021 », Les Cahiers d'Afrique de l’Est / The East African Review, ID : 10.4000/eastafrica.1569
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This article analyses the political construction in Kenya of the confusion between health prevention and law enforcement during the COVID-19 pandemic. Kenya’s security approach to the management of the COVID-19 situation went along with extortion mechanisms—the numerous exceptions to containment indeed made it possible to extract rent. The fear of the virus initially legitimised coercive measures which have now declined; but deviant practice linked to territorial control are now challenging the moral order.