Afro-Live Podcasts - The CCC Series: Covid Conversations with Contributors

The Afro-IP blog has started a series of podcasts featuring its contributors. So far, it has released five podcasts with Aurelia Schultz, Anthony Kakooza, Caroline Ncube (our chair), Chijioke Okorie (our postdoctoral research fellow) and Isaac Rutenburg. Visit The Afro-Live Podcasts: The CCC Series: Covid Conversations with Contributors to listen. Afro-IP summarises these podcasts as follows:

• Isaac speaks to us about COVID life in Kenya. How people are finding it challenging to shift work productivity when they are used to it working another way but at the same time are taking a turn to the arts such as cooking and poetry. "Develop your artistic side", he says.
• Chijioke explains what it is like to be locked down in Nigeria. She chats about her own personal experiences and how the creative industry is coping with COVID. She also shares her own tips about how to cope with the COVID crisis...
• Caroline explains how she is dealing with Covid19 in Cape Town on both a mirco and macro level. As a member of the higher education industry, she touches on copyright and how it effects us as we move our teaching online and adopt remote learning.
• Tony explains what it is like to be locked down in Uganda. Public transportation no longer functioning and the rise of ecommerce including electronic filing of intellectual property, concerns over priority claims, SafeBoda & Jumia thriving, branding opportunities for entrepreneurs, SipiLaw working from home, update on TK, increase in counterfeiting and more...
• Aurelia highlights the lockdown in Washington, digital transformation, associated challenges and surprises, concerns over creatives in the music sphere, changing distribution models for music in Africa, the importance of staying calm, and why it is necessary to dress as a princess!