-Pandemic is a breakthrough in disguise for Africans

-cleanliness attitude. This is causing a big problem for a lot of African countries on waste management and its associated cost and health issues.

Bathing and hand washing is not part of the majority of Africans. It is believed that 3 out of 10 males bath twice a day and 7 out of 10 baths twice a day. On the part of handwashing, only a few Africans wash their hand after visiting the washroom with soap or sanitizer. The majority are good at washing with only water or not at all. The Coronavirus Pandemic has suddenly brought about the old personal hygiene spirit of Africans.

Today, regular hand washing and bathing becomes part of our key daily routines because of Covid19. We hope that these positive hygiene behaviours will not easily fade but may last for life even after this pandemic.

Cleanliness is both the abstract state of being clean and free from germs, dirt, trash, or waste, and the habit of achieving and maintaining that state. Cleanliness is often achieved through cleaning. Cleanliness is a good quality, as indicated by the aphorism: "Cleanliness is next to Godliness",  and may be regarded as contributing to other ideals such as health  and  beauty.

In emphasising an ongoing procedure or set of habits for the purpose of maintenance and prevention, the concept of cleanliness differs from purity, which is a physical, moral, or ritual state of freedom from pollutants. Whereas purity is usually a quality of an individual or substance, cleanliness has a social dimension, or implies a system of interactions.  Cleanliness,  observed Jacob Burckhardt, is indispensable to our modern notion of social perfection A household or workplace may be said to exhibit cleanliness, but not ordinarily purity; cleanliness also would be a characteristic of the people who maintain cleanness or prevent dirtying.

On a practical level, cleanliness is thus related to hygiene and disease prevention. Washing is one way of achieving physical cleanliness, usually with water and often some kind of soap or detergent. Cleaning procedures are of the utmost importance in many forms of manufacturing.

As an assertion of moral superiority or respectability, cleanliness has played a role in establishing cultural values in relation to social class, humanitarianism, and cultural imperialism.  

Cleanliness is linked with proper hygiene. A person who is said to be clean usually depicts cleanliness.

Humanitarianism is an active belief in the value of human life, whereby humans practice benevolent treatment and provide assistance to other humans, in order to better humanity for moral, altruistic and logical reasons. It is the philosophical belief in movement toward the improvement of the human race in a variety of areas, used to describe a wide number of activities relating specifically to human welfare. A practitioner is known as a humanitarian.

Humanitarianism is an informal ideology of practice; it is  the doctrine that people's duty is to promote human welfare.

Humanitarianism is based on a view that all human beings deserve respect and dignity and should be treated as such. Therefore, humanitarians work towards advancing the well-being of humanity as a whole. It is the antithesis of the "us vs. them" mentality that characterizes tribalism and ethnic nationalism. Humanitarians abhor slaver