Journal of African Studies and Sustainable Development

The novel corona virus, also known as covid-19, is a pandemic that in a very short time has claimed lives and transformed the world to an emergency health response. The African continent is not spared by this destructive and highly contagious virus. Migration which is prevalent in Africa has been found to be one of the major reasons the virus has spread and is still spreading in Africa. This paper therefore investigated how migration is impacting on the wide spread of covid-19 in African countries. We relied on the Infectious Disease Transmission Model as the framework of this study. The purpose of the infectious disease transmission modeling is often to understand the factors that are responsible for the persistence of transmission, the dynamics of the infection process and how to control transmission. We anchored on the documentary method of data collection for data gathering. In the findings, migration which is an inevitable aspect of socioeconomic activities because of the mobility of labor involved, makes the spread of the novel virus imminent. Therefore, among other recommendations of the paper include migrants’ access to proper healthcare facilities and adequate contact tracing of migrants by the respective African governments and authorities.

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