At the start of 2020, the West African country of The Gambia was emerging from decades of dictatorship and optimistic about a future of democracy, tourism, and international investment. Then COVID-19 hit, and in common with most of Africa, the country adopted the WHO's guidance to lock down. This was an economic, social and developmental disaster, argue The COVID Consensus author Toby Green and Gambian historian and broadcaster Hassoum Ceesay, and the subsequent expropriation of the country's resources constiute a form of neocolonialism.
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