What can we make of these narratives? Firstly, Covid-19 experiences are distinctly context-specific (cf. Carling and Schewel, 2018). I learnt from my interviews that these raw experiences were severely globalised through everyday transnational interconnections/communication between the people in Africa and their acquaintances abroad (cf. Vertovec, 2009:447). Therefore, as students worried and hoped for their safety abroad, they also fretted and hoped for the wellbeing of their fellow relati...