Ahunna Eziakonwa



Published on October 15, 2020

After COVID-19, African women must get back to better jobs

As market women breathe a collective sigh of relief in Ghana, the first country to ease COVID 19–related movement restrictions, evidence of the new normal is everywhere: in mask-wearing, social distancing, and varying days for the sale of different products.

Some 80 percent of incomes in Africa’s informal sector were lost in just the first month of COVID 19—and not everyone can return to work yet.