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Lecon of Metaphysical Communication by Covid-19

Breach of a Potential: New Perception of the World
KOKO Emmanuel-Doris

Abstract:- Our previous article on COVID-19 (KOKO, to question the facts beyond science, with a view to the
2021: 127-138) demonstrated that persuasive construction of another perception of the world.
communications mainly reach the already convinced. As
a result, he noted that it was difficult for many people to Therefore, the foregoing allegations corroborate, in our
easily change their opinion (and, if so, despite the view, the concern of this study. Hence the title: LECON OF
vicissitudes related to the pandemic of the day). METAPHYSICAL COMMUNICATION BY COVID-19.
Therefore, referring to the North-South perception Perspective of a potential "New Perception of the World".
relationship, this behavior justified "the thesis of the
On the other hand, with COVID-19 cementing
radicalization of the cognitive dissonance of the Western
in relation to the African (perceived as dependent- cognitive dissonance and the so-called selective perception
consumer of Western research), and that of the South of relations between countries of the North and the South
towards the North (perceived as producer of African well- (in light of our previous article on this pandemic), three
being" (KOKO, 2021: 137), concluded this previous fundamental questions are, here, supposed to be asked:
article.  What can justify the persistence of the North-South
dichotomy of perception?
In addition, this text would rather highlight the  What are the meta-communication signals emitted by this
communication signals emitted by COVID-19 on the transcontinentalepidemic?
persistence of perception in the North-South  What metaphysical lesson can be learned from these meta-
relationship. This is, in our humble opinion, an extra- communicative signs emitted by COVID-19?
scientific communication. But, to analyze it with glasses
seen from afar, this communication may well challenge II. NORTH-SOUTH PERCEPTION DOCTRINES
the warned on the "why" of the mutations that continue AND PERSISTENCE FACTORS
to cause this pandemic that the saw does not yet manage
Looking historically at the relations between North
to control.
and South, let us note three major doctrines that have led
Keywords:- Metaphysical communication, Covid-19, the West to place itself at the center of several international
potential new perception of the world. actions and to "overestimate" itself: imperialism,
individualism and racism. In the same perspective, three
I. INTRODUCTION main factors would haveled the Third World (to which
Africa belongs) to continue to underestimate itself (to the
In view of technological development and medical point of observing the manifestation of COVID-19 without
prowess recognized in the West, the COVID-19 reality active involvement) to the point of being the subjectof
would be quickly mastered by science. Yet, despite the Western cognitive dissonance: dependence on the West,
perceptual consolidation in the North-South relationship, the the lack of patriotism and the non-respect of barrier
pandemic of the day still demonstrates the limits of science measures against disease.
in the appropriate resolution of health problems.
Consequently,this reality has an impact on human relations A. Doctrines on "Western overestimation"1
from both a social and a political-economic point of view. Starting from observations from various horizons, to be
mentioned in the following lines, we noteessentially these
This situation of the limit of man is well noted by a three main doctrines:
Congolese philosopher. It states that "humanity has
suddenly found itself helpless and helpless in the face of the  Imperialism
new virus that has exposed the limits of human knowledge Jbeing, in fact, a retrospective look at the media news
and know-how, the precariousness of the world economic of the years 2000 and 2010 through the mass media (RFI,
order, the incongruences of regional and international BBC, TV5 Monde, France 24, CNN, etc.) one could
governance" (MUTUNDA, 2020: 8). conclude that imperialism has still led the Westerner to
think he is the master of the world to the point of allowing
According to the aforementioned philosopher, it is the everything, to the point of eliminating human lives
"questioning of man's conscience in the face of the challenge throughout the world for his own interests. The most typical
of resilience and the future of his existence on a planet
where, from now on, the way of life, behavior, codes of 1
society, can no longer be those before covid-19" Concept found by the author of this article, Western
(MUTUNDA, 2020: 5). This implies, of course, to think overestimation compresses all the actions undertaken by
differently about interhuman relations, if necessary, to seek the West to establish its supremacy, even its veto, over the
rest of the world during the history of civilizations
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cases would be the various wars of aggression, during which As a result, despite the long scientific discussion
the West has openly declared itself as a supporter, especially around authors such as Hitler supporting the thesis of the
in Iraq and Libya, countries whose oil resources have not supremacy of the Arian race and conceiving the others as
been spared, let alone the lives of their presidents in office, "uncivilized" (HITLER, 1934) (whereas the world
according to various analysts of the situation. observation is that those considered "civilized" have mutated
its wars to the point of calling them "uncivilized"). as
Admittedly, according to the different analyses of world wars s) and HEGEL stipulating that Africans have
human rights actors at the time, this action flouted legal no history (HEGEL, 1965), there is to question sentences
standards (including those of human dignity). Today, when such as "reason is hellene, emotion," (SENGHOR , 1964:
analysing the Western scientific boom from which 24); polemical sentence dating from 1939 out of a man of
imperialism is falling back to clinical trials on the natural the caliber of SENGHOR. Because, many observers think
environment, there is reason to think that the laws of nature that racism blinds the eyes of its adulated.
are increasingly flouted by the Occidental, ignoring them eta
physical reactions against its action. This is the case of Therefore, the argument supported by the defenders of
various actions that have ledto the advent of living beings the African race states that the afro is proud of the
from biological-chemical laboratories, extra natural animals, constancy of his skin in all seasons and does not have time
facts causing global warming, etc. In the same perspective, to try to tan his body. These defenders think that the so-
another doctrine follows in the footsteps of imperialism. called "colored" man or woman is at least able to push a
This is individualism. pencil or pen into his hair and keep it there... According to
this argument, the latter does not have to call the Westerner
 Individualism a "pig" (as the latter calls the African a "monkey"), hurling
Following the reasoning of several sub-Saharan pig cries at him as he passes through Africa as he suffers the
internationalists (the case of the interventions of Philipe cries of monkey in the West. This is what shows that no one
BIYOYA),2individualism has taken up residence in the heart is sufficient in himself, and that all have inadequacies.
of the West following its scientific exploits, having boosted
the almost integral development of its living environment Yet, observing Western realities through the press and
(exploits that do not spare, in part, its benefit, downstream, communication through different ICTs, it is still approved
to the rest of the world). today that many nationals of the countries of the South
continue to suffer various humiliations in the West. The
It is, of course, true that in most cases, these scientific cases are hardly exhaustive as to this: theseAfro footballers
feats are to be commended. However, the Western has sunk playing in several European clubs are stigmatized on the
into individualism (taken in the sense of the subordination playground, receiving monkey cries, banana skins and
of the general interest to the interest of the individual),while various racist insults in their faces. We will remember: the
much of its material success comes from the Third World Cameroonian Samuel ETO'O, out of the field because tired
which, in most cases, provides it with both raw material and of suffering the monkey cries on him and having, by this
labor. fact, stopped at the same time the match ; the Brazilian
Daniel ALVES, having picked up in the middle of the match
For example, the West has miniaturized the a banana thrown on him, having peeled it on the spot and
technological apparatus, among other things to withdraw to having eaten it (act having made the buzz with the slogan
itself in order to better control the world, and, if necessary, "we are all monkeys" , implied, since we all eat the banana
to avoid collectivism even in terms of medical technology; as much as the monkey).
which, on the other hand, does not give it the monopoly of
the search for an effective solution against COVID-19 that On the other hand, questions like: "when are you going
does not have the same scope. contamination in the to go home"? (questions asked to expatriates from the South,
countries of the South where collectivism is in full swing. In even by relatives of Westerners at home) and phrases such
the same vein, racism is counted. as: "Africa is the misery of the world"; "The West cannot
bear all the misery of the world" is a testament to the
 Racism traditional Western spirit which still hangs over the North
The observation starting from the history of relations with regard to many nationals of the so-called Third World
between North-South civilizations, starting from the countries.
contemporary world, leads us to understand that racism has
pushed Western-conservative man to refuse the difference of Similarly, remarkable efforts on the visible impetus
race, to think that his own is the best; therefore, superior to towards a change of considerationare not to be ignored when
Afro, Arabic or yellow. And this, for a long time. one follows on television shows produced in Belgium, such
as "Un fou noir au pays des blancs" by the Congolese writer
Pie TSHIBANDA and so many others. As a result, the
2
Teachersome International organizationsat the University Third World is still experiencing almost total
of Kinshasa, The teacher regularly returned to the thinking "underestimation" in the West.
relating to his interventions on Télé7 (in connection with
international relations) theirs of the exemption from his
course, in First year License in Communication from the
Organizations, to theUniversity of Kinshasa, in 2011,
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B. Factors of "third-world underestimation" policy generally out of step with social welfare, remaining in
Following in the footsteps of the previous observations, an extroverted economy, despite various natural riches that
let usrecall here three main factors: abound in various African countries.

 Dependence on the West And this lack of patriotism is reflected in the hearts of
Note that the Third World's gaze towards the West has the population through the symptoms of anger and fed up.
almost killed the independence of the man of the South, Similarly, there is a lack of encouragement from political
obstructing his know-how, to the point of linking him to the decision-makers in relation to the good initiatives taken both
law of least effort. Admittedly, to observe the behavior of by individuals and by established structures with a view to
third-worldist populations, wanting, for decades, to "do as contributing to the improvement of collective living
the whites do" (like the concept "evolved", found in the conditions. Admittedly, several nationals are faced with
Roman Postcard of the Congolese ZAMENGA various administrative barriers, under heavy bonds;
BATUKEZANGA (ZAMENGE, 1974), a concept requirements imposed by the political authorities of their
reinforced by that of ''Nsa Mputu''4) the Third World own countries when they want to invest in their own
remains dependent on the West. What is more, many of its countries. And according to concordant sources, many of
populations are frantic in seeking to live in the West instead these authorities are pulling strings of economic divends,
(the case of the plurality of applications for visas, passports, behind various so-called wars of aggression or rebellion;
or even asylums in different Western embassies in recent which sacrifices national development on the hotel of
decades, inAfrica) (www.jeuneafrique.com).5 And this, individuals and various groups of individuals.
despite the craze towards Asia, according to the trends of the
time; especially observedon the afro populations, despite Admittedly, this lack of patriotism is evident in several
these cases of xenophobia recorded recently6). countries of the South, to the point of even noting the lack of
serious investment in a vital sector that is health. This
While the South is full of potential that can boost its situation shows a lack of programming, planning in raising
own development, this dependence on the North has forced awareness about the harms of COVID-19; which may well
it to think that what comes from the West is always better justify the popular relaxation in the respect of barrier
(traditional perception), while it has the opportunity to measures.
discern or even verify the veracity of the facts. It is in this
sense that he hesitates to believe even in the medical  Non-compliance with COVID-19 barrier measures
research conducted by his family (having studied in the The neglect of compliance with the measures against
West) because contested by Western authorities (cognitive the pandemic of the hour confirms the recklessness of
dissonance) despite his demonstrations. On the other hand, African populations across some countries of the continent.
dependence on the West overlaps with lack of patriotism. This situation attests not only to the lack of binding
provisions that policies would have taken for the good of
 Lack of patriotism these nations but much more to the serious "non-
This unpatriotic factor has led the non-Western to sell involvement" of the countries of the South in the search for
his conscience at the price of partisan interests. It is effective solutions against the global disease.
precisely these individualistic interests that have killed the
sense of the common good and community development in On the other hand, this situation contributes to the
Africa. The typical arguments are no less legion: here, the consolidation of Western cognitive dissonance developed in
decision-makers and political leaders who are supposed to the previous article. Because, according to the Western
improve popular living conditions shine by bad faith to the argument, revealed aloud by Donald TRUMP (then
point of selling their service for the benefit of plundering the President of the USA) (KOKO, 2021: 133),Africa remains a
natural resources of their respective countries for the West. land of. As a result,it is doing nothing to improve its living
By way of illustration, it is necessary to observe the African conditions. Following in the footsteps of this consideration,
analysts of the situation, through the so-called international
media, during the 2020 lockdown (KOKO, 2021: 135)
3
Like the concept of "Western overestimation", we believe stipulated that the still slow manifestation of the devastating
that the concept of Third Worldist virus wasonly temporary, because the antibodies of Africans
underestimationIncludes all ideas and actions subordinated are so accustomed to confronting buried conditions such as
to those of the South to those of the North. dirt, heat; What they can still resist against the pandemic,
4
Translation of Kikongo, meaning "habit of Europe", the '' they said.
Nsa Mesa'' gave birth to the Lingala concept: ''Sapatu''
(French translation: ''soulier''). However, this failure to comply with barrier measures
5 against the disease is the standard bearer of the spread of
Conclusions drawn from the consultations on :
www.jeuneafrique.com, Articles posted between 08 June COVID-19, especially in Africa, notwithstanding the
2017 and 25 July 2022. downward revision of cases across some parts of the world.
6 There is no doubt that the meteoric rise in COVID-19 cases
The Congolese National Radio-Television broadcast,
during the period of confinement (2020-2021), the steps in the DRC is due, among other things,to the neglect of
taken by the DRC for the conclusions on the negotiations health measures by the population.
between the Indian and Chinese states, following various
aggressions of which many of the Congolese reside in these
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In Kinshasa, it is well observed through various public as a deadly invasion of evil (MUTUNDA, 2020: 10):
places, the non-normative wearing of protective masks by "Powerful states as well as weak nations are faced with a
the population, tied under the chin. This is when it is likely disconcerting reality: human civilizations are mortal;
to store, therefore, sweat and various bacteria. InKinshasa, humanity is in danger of becoming extinct, of disappearing
nose patches attached to the wrist as a bracelet are supposed in the same incredible way that it appeared" (MUTUNDA,
to be attached to the face to protect the nose and mouth 2020:11). Hence the meaning of the theorization of meta-
from contamination postilions. And this, apart from the communication signals by COVID-19.
neglect of other barrier measures as recommended by the
WHO. A. Theorizing meta-communication signals by COVID-19.
Note that the COVID-19 pandemic would like to start
Clearly, there is a lack of serious studies throughout from an issuer that is elusive. The philosopher Emmanuel
the Third World, and mainly in Africa, to plan for the future KANT would evoke the concept of "Noumène". This is a
for the benefit of indigenous peoples. And the supposed concept contrary to that of "phenomenon" which is intended
"decision-makers" draw almost no lessons from the past in to be grasped at a given moment, 9 myability to be grasped
the sense of self-criticism of the negative events that marked by the senses (appearing through the mind) and, where
the brake on development to the point of being designated appropriate, by science. And this, both from the point of
Third World countries. They would therefore need common view figuratively as a thing, event, circumstances that
sense, because, according to DESCARTES, "common sense surprises by its new, current or rare character and from the
is the thing in the world best shared" (DESCARTES, 1986: philosophical nature of the term, referring to the object as it
33). is perceived by a conscious subject
(www.universalis.fr./encyclopaedi universalis:
Consequently, the lack of good faith on the part of the phenomenon).
decision-makers and managers of the so-called Third World
countries, the ignorance of the indigenous populations as to In this sense, it is a metaphysical communication:
the danger of the pandemic as well as the crass here, the Transmitter of the message is invisible and
unconsciousness of these leaders on the emergence and immaterial (but whose presence of actions is palpable in
good initiatives of some for the development of all (leading nature). Philosophers would designate it by the Uncreated,
to frustration often manifested in popular tensions) create a the Infinite Being. It conveys both a double batch of
cultural vacuum against the emergence of the nations of the understandable messages : the fragility of the human
South. It is therefore a painful void in the sense of Béatrice species and the limits of science (first batch of messages).
SAUBIN for whom "A great inner emptiness gives way to This batch of messageswas transmitted through a channel
pain" (SAUBIN, 1991: 81). The global virus would, with large tentacles: COVID-19. Thismeans that this
therefore, like to send a message beyond science, channel transmits metaphysical signals (those that science
internationally. cannot control: death (in large numbers), seasonal
disturbances, including global warming, leading to heat
III. METAPHYSICAL LESSON BY COVID-19 7 waves, floods, earthquakes and other so-called disasters.
"natural" whiletheir manifestations are still inexplicable by
It is here that it is necessary to identify the meta- human intelligence: which would border on the supernatural,
communicational signals emitted by this transcontinental politico-economic inflations, etc.)
epidemic.
All this, in order to challenge the Receiver: the
Admittedly, the statistical aspectof this article on "decision-makers" of the world order, to observe the return
COVID-19 is metaphysical. He would like to pass on a to the natural order and respect for human life (second
global message that could not be more important: "the batch of messages).And this message is precisely encoded
untamability of life" by 8 man, founded ontologically by by allthese global mutations brought about by the
the fragility of the human species. Philosophers would pandemic of the hour and possibly decoded by extra-
speak of finitude. This is, moreover, what one of them scientific analyses; that is to say, drawn from the abstract,
expresses on the pandemic of the hour, which he describes from empiricism and therefore fromthe reactions of nature.
At this stage, the context is that of natural correction in the
7
perspective of the pedagogy of transcendence. It is
Metaphysics is, strictly, a part of Philosophy that deals therefore up to the Receiverto consider in his action all
with the first principles of human knowledge, the so-called these reactions not mastered byscience in order to rectify
universal ideas. It constitutes, in a broad way, the set of (correct) his action. And contact (like the phatic function of
rational ideas not proven by science. (Confer, JACKOBSON) (Read KOKO, 2021: 227-266) would be at
www.erudit.org-etc-métaphysique). In a broader sense, this level, Artificial Intelligence: this challenge to be
metaphysics would fall under Artificial Intelligence, that is
to say: a meta-science explanation, the one interpreted by
observing the behavior of nature. This is despite the
9
understanding as a set of theories and techniques Concept much more recognized to Emmanuel KANT in
implemented to make machines capable of simulating the definition he gives of philosophy through « The dreams
human intelligence. (Confer, www.eryrolles.com- of a visionary explained by the dreams of
IIntelligence Artificial). metaphysics (1766): Knowledge of the limits of reason.
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interpreted beyond the saw; this extra-scientific
understanding.

This is how a real feedback would be created that

could found this true metaphysical communication, once
the questions of scientists to consider meta-science would be
taken into account by the "decision-makers of the world
order". This, in the sense of the maxim of the German
philosopher according to which "act in such a way that you
treat humanity, both in your person and in any other, always
at the same time as an end, and never simply as a means"
(KANT, 1999).

Taken from Emmanuel KANT's Moral Philosophy,

the above maxim can well be understood by "10act only
according to the maxim that makes you want at the same
time that it becomes a universal law" (KANT, 1985: 285).11
This means that human action is supposed to take into
account universal well-being, despite partisan interests. And
this, so that in acting, one takes into account not only the
immediate results for immediate and medium-term needs,
but much more so that this action does not annoy the laws of
nature. The diagram below can represent what the concept
of "metaphysical communication" contains in relation to the
global health crisis.

10
KANT develops his Moral Philosophy through the
concept ofCategorical imperative.First stated in 1785
across Foundations of the metaphysics of morals, this
concept has been taken up in other publications relating to
KANT's ethics. This thought will be strongly criticized by
the contemporaries of the author. Despite this, it will be
taken up, even co-opted by many other philosophers. The
notion of the categorical imperative is made famous through
its translations and reformulations such as those mentioned
above. Confer, www/http/en.m.wikipedia.org./Categorical
imperative, accessed May 10, 2021.
11
E. KANT, Fondation de la métaphysique des mœurs in
Métaphysique des mœurs, I, Fondation, Introduction, Trans.
Alain RENAUT, 2018, p. 97.See, E.KANT, Categorical
imperative, IIe section, IV, 421, in « Œuvres philosophiques
», t ; II, ed. F. ALQUIÉ, Gallimard, Pléiade, 1985, p.285.

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B. Metaphysical communication scheme12

Context

(The Pedagogy of Transcendence)

Receiver
Immaterial Issuer Wide channel Double batch of LACOVID-19 (The "decision-
(The Uncreated; the understandable messages makers" of the world
tentacules :
Infinite Being) order)
(The fragility of the human
species and the limits of
science)/ The return to the
natural order and respect
for human life

Contact

(Extra-scientific analyses / questions by

researchers)

Code

(The global changes brought about by the

pandemic of the hour)

12
Proposal of the author of the article.

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By interpreting the meaning of the above-proposed
scheme, COVID-19, through its avatars, wanted to give a C. Statics15 and Call for Respect for the Natural Order
moral lesson both to the combatants of the presence of The repercussions of this pandemic on socio-professional
people of other races in their respective countries and to life were soon noticed. In the West, already 20,000 jobs
Western strategists on the influence of raw products in the lost in the US since April 2020 as a result of COVID-19;
Third World, on the one hand, and to the leaders of the an average of 14.7% of jobs lost in this country. 16 In Africa,
countries of the South as well as to the populace neglecting health neglect in relation to the barrier measures against the
transcendental laws and health standards, on the other. pandemic observed among the population, mainly in the
DRC, increases the rate of infected despite the slow spread
While in the West, COVID-19 cases are monitored compared to that in the West, according to reports from the
with great care, including strictly adhered to prevention COVID-19 Response Technical Team in Kinshasa17 . Thus,
measures, the deaths continue to number in the thousands, the aforementioned illustrations are likely to review man's
even taking with them iconic names from Africa staying in habits in the face of those different from oneself (whether
the West. And for most COVID deaths in Africa, itis vulnerable or not) and in the face of nature.
souvent family members of the wealthy and politicians as
well as themselves, having contacts with the West13. From then on, the world is called upon to
scrupulously respect international human rights and the
While the Third World has long remained anchored in transcendental laws of nature. For the avatars of COVID-19
conformism due to many Western norms that still colonize seem to communicate to the man of this era the discontent of
it, the wealthy and African politicians continue to seek the Uncreated (this Transcendent-Invisible) against his
treatment in the West, leaving the "poor" without economic action throughout the world; act of this man relying
means to languish in their respective countries, as long as exclusively on his scientific intelligence and selfish
they could invest well.in a sanitary and economic way at interests. Therefore, man is called to act in this immutable
home. In general, African politicians, clinging to partisan good sense. Because, if for René DESCARTES, "common
interests, plan almost nothing on the basisof consistent sense is the thing of the world best shared" (cf. Discourse
health care in their country and prefer to go to the West for of the method), wewould have preferred to advance the idea
treatment. that common sense is the value of humanity supposed to
be the best shared. This will be, in our understanding, the
However, because of the current pandemic, it is no new perception of the world (which, moreover, is still
longer common to move as before from South to North, and potential like our previous article on Covid-19).
vice versa. That is what suggests. Therefore, "the imperative
of changing mentalities and lifestyles is structurally linked On this, according to progressive opinions, the global
to the need for a profound change in political governance, pandemic is already moving the lines of the North-South
economic management, scientific research, and of course shift. According to these opinions, this potential change is
the basis of social life and production that is health" likely to bring new social norms across field crops; norms
(MUTUNDA, 2021: 5). imposed by the vicissitudes of COVID-19, conceived here
as discordant information. Hence the meaning of thinking of
What's more, many are those in the Third World who, a "New Discourse on the World".
according to various reports about the measures to be taken
against COVID-19, are still wary of the potential vaccine IV. THE CONCEPT OF ''NEW PERCEPTION OF
against the pandemic; a vaccine that would have come from THE WORLD'
the West. In Africa, many are advancing a conspiracy theory
against the demography of the continent. They suspect The events that occurred following the advent of
Western medical assistance could significantly reduce COVID-19 are so challenging that it is imperative for the
African demographics, taking to task the words of warned, tomature another look at the realities of the world.
Emmanuel Macron in Hamburg when he was openly Admittedly, it is a question of a shift in perception that starts
worried that an African woman could have seven to eight from realities changes people's daily lives and normally
children.14 It will also be necessary to put forward the imposes another course on others.
figures, alongside the call for respect for the natural order.
From this perspective, COVID-19 presents itself as an
opportunity to the revision of relations between States and
13
Findings from the information provided by RFI during between individuals, counting among the facts inherent in
confinement and publication of cases by the Response Team everyday life. This is what philosopher Pierre MUTUNDA
of the National Institute for Biomedical Research of thinks, when he argues that beyond the damage of COVID-
Kinshasa against COVID-19, relayed by Top Congo Fm,
15
through the section Instance Corona of the show The These are the first trends in statistics, following the craze
debate, between 2020 and 2021, Unpublished. for the highest rates of cases, at the beginning of the event,
14
Speaking from the top of the G20 summit in Hamburg on in 2020.
16
July 8, 2017, E. Macron stipulated that " Africa's Information delivered by Denise EPOTE, on RFI, through
development Pass by the decline in fertility". He ''Africa-Morning’’, Paris, May 10, 2020, Unpublished.
considered the 7 to 8 children of African women as " A 17
Emission ‘'The debate'', heading '’Instance Corona
civilizational problem » ; Remarks considered by many Virus’’, hosted by Christian LUSAKUENO, on Top
media as racist. (Confer : www.lexpress.fr-World-Africa). Congo Fm, Kinshasa, April 23, 2020, Unpublished.

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19, it would be necessary " the questioning of the Africa is still a part, resists the evidence and has fewer
conscience of man in the face of the challenge of resilience deaths. Some would even think that climatic and precarious
and the future of his existence on a planet where, from now factors would be the essential brake on the rapid spread of
on, the way of life, the behavior, the codes of sociality, can COVID-19 in the Third World.
no longer be those before covid 19 (MUTUNDA, 2020:
5),let us recall it here. While traveling to the West has long been a luxury and
an honor, especially for many Africans, COVID-19 has
As a result, this unusual fact, COVID-19, is likely to seemed to undermine this prestige due to fear of
essentially bring about a change of mentality across cultures contamination. And the exhibitionism around the return of
that cross national and continental borders. COVID-19 is the West, long considered in Africa as a sign of the success
therefore seen as a pretext for the new perception of the of socio-p rofessional life for investments (however
world. individualistic they may be) in the black continent, was
reduced (at a given moment) to clandestine returns, stealthy
A. COVID-19 as support for a potential "New Perception of to the countries of origin, because of the possibility of
the World" contaminating those left behind. to the continent. It is the
Let us recall from the outset that it was in Wuhan, a systematic control that is carried out at the airports of these
Chino province,that COVID-19 patients were discovered in Third World countries, as has always been the case at the
December 2019. One hypothesis states that a pangolin sold airports of the West. It is the "mistrust", this time, of those
at the Wuhan market, infected with the new form of corona, from North to South while many foreigners have always
is the causative agent of those who ate it and, therefore, suffered from the racism of Westerners at home; which is
spread the virus in their surroundings. Therefore, the new not to been couraged. However, all these facts have hardly
crown: the "corona" (virus having taken the form of a changed the West's view of Africa and vice versa.
crown, and more virulent than the previous ones) was Difference should therefore be thought of as an opportunity.
codified: COVID-19 by the WHO.
B. Potential crumbling of walls of indifference and
However, many believe that COVID-19 is this perceptual defense
acronym meaning Corona Virus Ddeveloped in 2019, while It should be noted above all that there is a question of
it is only a code designated by WHO epidemiologists to awareness, on the part of the Third World, of the positive
distinguish the form of the decvirus opened in 2019 from actions to be taken in order to obtain a positive perception of
previous ones. the North. Instead of continuing to cry victimization, the
South is called upon to sell itself positively like the East.
It is then that Corona Virus presents itself as this rather This is because, in the name of power relations between
peculiar disease which significantly challenges the normal states, each national community fights for its autonomy, its
course of life and remains uncontrolled in the West as in the socio-political positioning. Hence the call for investment for
Third World. As a result, this situation does not spare the development of the nations of the South without possible
Africa, the continent to which Congo-Kinshasa belongs. external aid. Safeguards should therefore be put in place to
Indeed, some would think that COVID-19 would ensure political and economic exchanges with the North,
mean: Congo Vit en Difficulté d emuculté d e. 19 years, as it which, moreover, are inevitable in the era of globalisation. It
is said in some youth circles, in Kinshasa. This is out of the is in this that the break with what is considered old habits of
question because it is rather a form of pandemic awakened conceiving the world can be envisaged: exploiting the
in 2019 and decimating, day by day, tens of thousands of natural resources of the countries of the South and keeping
human people who have lived in promiscuity with infected them in precariousness, on the one hand, and thinking that
people (KOKO, 2021).In this sense, COVID-19 requires the happiness of social development can only come from the
strict compliance with barrier measures which, moreover, North.
are supposed to change the normal course of everyday life. Admittedly, it is well observed that some seek at all
However, despite the advice of the WHO to fight against costs to bully those whom they think are different from
this pandemic (advice relayed by the health and political them, and if necessary, weak, whereas the difference (of
authorities in the DRC in the form of binding decisions) in race and culture) should constitute an intermediate wealth.
Kinshasa, the population flouts without a blow the The France, which still observes the pockets of racism, has
protective measures in public places and is deliberately twice had to win its Coupes du Monde thanks to the players
exposed to this disease likely to transform the habitudinaire of color, still constituting manyathletes, sportsmen of its
of Man. national football team and other sports. Portugal won their
Therefore,COVID-19 is a thoughtful trigger for the Men's Eurolast decade thanks to the only goal of EDER, a
new perception of the world. While in its incubator phase player of color.
the Western media proclaimed aloud a possible carnage in Consequently, it is a question of thinking of mastering
the Third World because of the precariousness of the health the arrogance of man and the supremacy of the Leviathan
system of the countries of the South, nature has proved, States ; for man has flouted the laws of nature in our age,
decided otherwise. Rather, it is the countries of the North even trampling on the principles of Transcendence.
that continue to record thousands of deaths from COVID-19. Therefore, the revolutions that occurred in the wake of
And this, despite various experts and health actors that COVID-19 could herald the beginning of the end of
abound in the West. However, the Third World, of which

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Western hegemony, given the rise of the Chine from which the action of the scientific man of this era. This discontent is
the pandemic originated. manifested through the avatars of the global pandemic in
order to challenge man to return to the natural order and
In this perspective, both political and health structures respect for human life, especially flouted in the North-South
from the West are supposed to review their policy of action. relationship.
The WHO, which is empowered to regulate biomedical
research throughout the world, is invited to be biasedin the However, to observe the relations of productive power
research products presented by both Westerners and other between the West and the countries of the East, one would
researchers, including those from Africa. Despite its attest to the construction of a change of perception. The
interests related to the trade policy of pharmaceuticals and West is already beginning to turn its sympathy (if not
other health-related products, WHO is called upon to grant consideration) to the original countries, including China
access to any proven researcher with a view to finding a (which has become the world's largest economy and market)
solution against COVID-19. Because it is by no means and is taking this as a challenge.
established that epidemiological solutions would necessarily
come only from Western researchers. Therefore, the disease of the century has taught the
whole world a metaphysical lesson. Beyond its moral
Therefore, health products such as Artemissia (product aspect, this lesson is much more perceptible: no nation, no
proposed by research conducted by Congo-Kinshasa, culture, no race is sufficient on its own, because human
African land) as an effective solution against COVID-19 nature is vulnerable, and therefore, not self-sufficient. It will
would be likely and worthy of being tested, instead of therefore be necessary to respect the other, in his difference
radically tackling an exclusively pharmaceutical protocol. and respect the laws of nature; which the philosophical gaze
While research on the Artemissia plant has already proved has helped as a basis to establish the concept of
its worth in Africa (research approved in Madagascar whose metaphysical communication in this text.
product has been co-opted by the Ministry of Health of this
African island, because it has already sheltered the Indeed, this lesson is likely to push man to review his
Malagasy people against the pandemic of the hour),18 WHO action in relation to the social inequalities still observable in
is called upon to submit to the signs of the times; because, as the middle of the21st Century. It is in this sense that for
mentioned above, there is no evidence that the solution Isidore NDAYWEL, arousing the law of effort, the
against COVID-19 would come exclusively from the West. COVID-19 pandemic has taught the world that "equality of
people is not a general slogan". And for Africa20, this
In this sense, the people of the Third World are called historian thought, "we must focus first on what is urgent
to come out of their lethargy, thinking that any scientific (...); it is not enough to make miserabilist speeches for
solution would come absolutely only from the West. Beyond things to fade (...); Thinking about the future is not about
the barrier measures to be strictly observed to fight the admiring your belly button all day long, but about looking
pandemic, it is necessary to support the research and up to look further."21
innovations of those with whom we previously share the
same lifestyles. This is also what justifies the support of Thus, COVID-19 requires the whole world to see far;
Afro-footballers like Dieu-Merci MBOKANI and Blaise and therefore, to see differently interpersonal relations
MATUIDI (from Congo-Kinshasa) as well as that of former (which, despite various analyses of the new lifestyles
footballer Lilian THURAM (from Guadeloupe) to the imposed by the pandemic, seem to remain the same
"Artemisia For Africa" as research and scientific structures between the countries of the North compared to those of the
of Jérôme MUNYANGI, young Congolese doctor against South). It is therefore an opportunity to interpret the world
malaria and the Corona Virus19. . And this, with a view to differently in order to "tame" the metaphysical forces likely
boosting Africa's health independence. The same is true for to regulate this invisible world, like this invisible virus that
the other factors of human life. So, what to remember from has brought even the great world powers to their knees.
the above? However, it is important to see difference as an opportunity.

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