AIDS Doesn’t Show Its Face: Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria

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AIDS and Africa are indelibly linked in popular consciousness, but in spite of widespread awareness of the epidemic, much of the story remains hidden beneath a superficial focal point on condoms, sex workers, and antiretrovirals. Africa gets lost on this equation, Daniel Jordan Smith argues, transformed into a mere vehicle to provide an explanation for AIDS, and in AIDS Doesn’t Show Its Face, he offers a powerful reversal, the usage of AIDS as a lens in which to view Africa.

Drawing on twenty years of fieldwork in Nigeria, Smith tells a story of dramatic social changes, ones implicated in the similar inequalities that also factor into local perceptions about AIDS—inequalities of gender, generation, and social class. Nigerians, he shows, view both social inequality and the presence of AIDS in moral terms, as sorts of ethical failure. Mixing ethnographies that describe on a regular basis life with pointed analyses of public health interventions, he demonstrates just how powerful these paired anxieties—medical and social—are, and how the world might better alleviate them through a more sensitive understanding in their relationship.

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