Global Journal of Human Social Science, F: Political Science, Volume 22 Issue 5

© 2022. Blessed Ashmond, Isaac Nunoo, George Sowah Boye & Bernice Quampah. This research/review article is distributed under the terms of the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). You must give appropriate credit to authors and reference this article if parts of the article are reproduced in any manner. Applicable licensing terms are at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. COVID-19 and Human Security: Western Populism, Chinese Strong State and Africa’s Submissive Populace By Blessed Ashmond, Isaac Nunoo, George Sowah Boye & Bernice Quampah University of Cape Coast Abstract- The COVID-19 has been one pandemic that has greatly impacted the world and its economies since it was identified in 2019. This current research therefore sets out to investigate the COVID-19 and Human Security in relation to western populism, Chinese strong state and Africa’s submissive populace. The study was undertaken in the University of Cape Coast (UCC) which is a diverse community of both Africans and Euro-Asians. Three categories of respondents are involved in this study namely: Africans (mainly Ghanaians), Euro-Americans and Chinese. Purposive sampling technique was used to interview respondents who are Chinese and Euro-American since they form a very small population and need to be specifically identified. The study also adopted simple random sampling for the respondents who are African (mainly Ghanaians) in a survey research. The study revealed that China’s strong state in defeating the virus could be attributed to mandatory testing and quarantine for 14 days on arriving in China. Again, China was able to defeat the virus because of mobile hospitals and mandatory vaccination that the government implemented. Keywords: covid-19, human security, western populism, chinese strong state, africa’s submissive populace, university of cape coast. GJHSS-F Classification: DDC Code: 614.5 LCC Code: RA644.S17 COVID19andHumanSecurityWesternPopulismChineseStrongStateandAfricasSubmissivePopulace Strictly as per the compliance and regulations of: Global Journal of HUMAN-SOCIAL SCIENCE: F Political Science Volume 22 Issue 5 Version 1.0 Year 2022 Type: Double Blind Peer Reviewed International Research Journal Publisher: Global Journals Online ISSN: 2249-460x & Print ISSN: 0975-587X