It is official the United States of America's new President is Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Just hours after taking office, Biden signed a stack of 17 executive actions aimed at reversing Donald Trump’s legacy on public health, immigration and the climate crisis. Biden’s first move was to mandate masks and physical distancing in federal buildings, and on federal land. In a sharp contrast to his predecessor, who denied public health research and refused to cover his face, Biden did so while wearing a mask. The inauguration took place amid a pandemic that has killed more than 400,000 Americans. An event that would normally have drawn a crowd of hundreds of thousands instead saw a far smaller audience,
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• Professor Gilbert Khadiagala is the Director of the Africa Centre for the Study of the United States
• Francis Kornegay is a senior research fellow at the Institute for Global Dialogue
