Why do many people claim that female leaders have handled the Covid crisis so well? And why are so few women on the panels working on reconstruction?

This episode looks beyond the pandemic to what happens next. Will we be able to build back fairer?  We speak with Nigerian and Kenyan fact-checkers Bamas Victoria and Marian Wasia,  and hear from UN Women's Laura Turquet in New York about what the world can learn from Argentina's recovery.


Plus, the Covid-19 disinformation top ten: featuring Bill Gates, pork, and a fake rumour about onions which has been around since Roman times.

Let’s be honest. Black lives haven’t always mattered to some unscrupulous medical researchers. 

So any discussion of vaccine hesitancy has to acknowledge those doubts;  we talk about the Kano incident. We’ll find out from a Nigerian journalist who covered the tragedy exactly what happened, and why some people still don’t trust big drug companies. 

And we look at anti-vax history.  How did a trend amongst conservative clergymen in 18th Century England develop into a worldwide anti-Western, anti-establishment movement? How is a fraudulent former doctor from Eton involved in the story? And what's the Hollywood connection?

Why do so many people not trust health providers, governments, and international drugs companies? The very people whose job it is to keep us alive and healthy?   And is Bill Gates really trying to kill Africans?

This episode also explores a Kenyan quiz, designed to test people's Covid knowledge, and looks at the lockdown and its impact.