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Africa's Unique Vulnerabilities Require a Different Pandemic Approach

Africa’s fate is precarious in the face of COVID-19. It is the last continent to be affected by COVID-19 following the arrival of the contagion in Egypt and Nigeria in February 2020.

Op-EdChidi OguamanamOctober 6, 2020Africa, WHO, COVID-19, Senegal, China, United Nations, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Health Law and Medical Ethics, Education

Expedited COVID-19 Research & Development: Indigenous Knowledge and ABS Imperative

With the world on edge as COVID-19 progresses, the scientific community has sprung into gear in search of an effective treatment. Amidst this development, traditional knowledge plays a significant role in scientific endeavours.

Blog PostChidi OguamanamJune 5, 2020COVID-19, Health Law and Medical Ethics, Madagascar, China, WHO, Costa Rica, IP and Knowledge Governance, Indigenous, Nagoya Protocol, Biotechnology, Politics, Canada

COVID-19: In the Shadow of Ebola, the Patent War to Come and a Forgotten Africa

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world continues to overlook the epidemic raging on in some of the poorest regions of Africa since 2013: the Ebola outbreak.

Blog PostChidi OguamanamMay 22, 2020Ebola, Africa, COVID-19, DRC, Médecins Sans Frontières, WHO, United Nations, Canada, Health Law and Medical Ethics, Guinea, Liberia, China, Costa Rica, Chile, Kenya, Pharmaceutical

Public Health, Africa, and COVID-19

As an African and a Canadian, I inhabit an observatory. I am a resident in two worlds of blunt contrasts. On a good note, those contrasts offer privileged lessons on the richness and complexity of the human experience, of our world.

Blog Post, Op-EdChidi OguamanamMarch 27, 2020Africa, Canada, Health Law and Medical Ethics, USA, China, Italy, Europe, Ebola, COVID-19, South Africa, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Politics

African Leaders' Blackmail of the International Criminal Court

In the last decade, warlordism has been on the decline in Africa. But terrorism and other forms of political combustion appear to be on the rise.

Op-EdChidi OguamanamOctober 21, 2013Africa, Politics, Kenya, Nigeria, Somalia, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, DRC, International, ICC, African Union, Rwanda, Criminal Law, United Nations, USA, China, Russia, UN Security Council, South Africa, Botswana, Ghana

Patents and Traditional Medicine: Digital Capture, Creative Legal Interventions, and the Dialectics of Knowledge Transformation

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Vol. 15, No. 2 (Summer 2008)

Journal ArticleChidi OguamanamJune 21, 2008Health Law and Medical Ethics, IP and Knowledge Governance, China, India, International

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