https://zimbabwe.misa.org Impact of Covid 19 on Media Sustainability Figure 2: COVID-19: Number of Media Freedom Violations by Region In a new era of post-colonial awareness, we should guard against Afro-pessimism and unconscious bias about developments in the region. A passionate argument has been put forward that developing rather than developed countries have exceeded expectations in handling the Coronavirus itself.106 Given the enormous economic and social challenges that news organisations in the region face at the best of times their resilience during this extraordinary upset of economies and societies caused by the pandemic should be recognised. 106. Indi Samarajiva, “The Overwhelming Racism of COVID Coverage,” Medium (blog), September 27, 2020, https://medium.com/ indica/the-overwhelming-racism-of-covid-coverage-78e37e4ce6e8. 29