This multidisciplinary volume includes an international roster of contributors who explore how mass hysteria has emerged among people across the globe as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The contributors provide international perspectives on the effects of this "corohysteria" in areas such as education, healthcare, religion, psychology, mathematics, economics, media, racism, politics, etc. They argue the hysteria, angst, fear, unrest, and difficulties associated with the pandemic are exploited to foster political and social agendas and have led to the undermining of national and global responses to the virus.
Abdul Karim Bangura has five PhDs in political science, development economics, linguistics, computer science, and mathematics. He is researcher-in-residence of Abrahamic Connections and Islamic Peace Studies at American University's Center for Global Peace.
Chapter 1: General Introduction by Isatu Ramatu Bangura Chapter 2: Coroeducation by Ishmael I. Munene and Jafred Muyaka Chapter 3: Coroexpertise by Joseph Lansana Kormoh Chapter 4: Coroelitism by Omosefe Oyekanmi Chapter 5: Coropoverty by Cecy Edijala Balogun Chapter 6: Corodemocracy by Harrison Adewale Idowu Chapter 7: Corofrontline by Gregory Obinna Ugbo, Henry Chigozie Duru & Chinwe Beatrice Ezeoke Chapter 8: Corophilanthropy by Rosemary Oyinlola Popoola Chapter 9: Cororeligion by Simon Gisege Omare Chapter 10: Coromathematics by Abdul Karim Bangura Chapter 11: Coropsychology by Pamela Oloo & Yakub Adams Chapter 12: Corolinguistics by Abdul Karim Bangura Chapter 13: Coroeconomics by Alie Kunda Chapter 14: Coromedia by Cecy Edijala Balogun Chapter 15: Corohistory by Hadizat Audu Salihu Chapter 16: Corolaw by Osman Kabba Chapter 17: Coroexploitation by Henrietta Eshalomi Chapter 18: Coroweakstate by Emmanuel Vincent Nelson Kallon Chapter 19: Cororacism by JP Afamefuna Ifedi Chapter 20: Coroadaptation by Feyisitan Ijimakinwa Chapter 21: Coropoliticaldiscourse by Rachael M. Rudolph Chapter 22: Coroinfodeluge by Collence T. Chisita, Nyarai P. Chibanda, Cecilia T. Olugbara & Moeketsi Letseka Chapter 23: Corolockdown by John Idriss Lahai About the Contributors
"The Coronavirus Disease (COVID)-2019 has had perhaps the most wide-ranging impact on every facet of human endeavor, especially since it was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. Being the first pandemic in the twenty-first century, it has been almost universally dreaded but poorly understood, leading to global mass hysteria, including by governments of all stripes. The world needed a meaningful perspective through which to manage the uncontrollable emotional responses to the pandemic, and none was forthcoming, until now. In Multidisciplinary Explorations of Corohysteria Caused by the COVID-2019 Pandemic, Dr. Abdul Karim Bangura, with a collection of global experts in different fields, has provided the most encompassing, multidisciplinary exposition of COVID-2019 that unveils the underlying reasons for the hysteria. The book is indispensable to anyone-scholars, professionals, and laypeople alike-who wants to understand the mechanisms behind the pandemic personally or to have an appreciation for the myriad of responses, sometimes contradictory, across the globe." -- James T. Gire, Virginia Military Institute
