Crisis as Opportunity: Exploring the African Union's Response to COVID-19 and the Implications for Its Aspirational Supranational Powers

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has proved challenging to states and regional organizations, exposing gaps in political leadership as well the preparedness of economic public healthcare systems. As organizations contend with pandemic, African Union's response this regard, thus far, indicates imperative enhanced multilateralism. Its also provides a template for endowing organization assertive, binding powers over its member and, such, achieving supranational aspirations. In respect, article argues that display progressive internationalism, swiftness action, agency legitimacy combatting coronavirus are elements can be applied sharpening processual quest supranationalism.