Strange and Difficult Times
Book • 2022
Nanjala Nyabola's Strange and Difficult Times is a reflective journal of the COVID-19 pandemic that blends personal narrative with political and social analysis.
Drawing on field observations and reporting from Kenya and beyond, Nyabola examines how societies responded to the crisis and the role of information in shaping public behavior.
The book highlights grassroots actors—like community health workers—whose human-mediated information efforts were crucial in many regions.
It situates the pandemic within broader themes of inequality, governance and digital mediation of information.
Accessible and incisive, the work offers both memoir and critical insight into how the pandemic revealed strengths and weaknesses in global and local systems.
Drawing on field observations and reporting from Kenya and beyond, Nyabola examines how societies responded to the crisis and the role of information in shaping public behavior.
The book highlights grassroots actors—like community health workers—whose human-mediated information efforts were crucial in many regions.
It situates the pandemic within broader themes of inequality, governance and digital mediation of information.
Accessible and incisive, the work offers both memoir and critical insight into how the pandemic revealed strengths and weaknesses in global and local systems.
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