Africa has lots of things going for it. Black people here get COVID more than average. Black people in Africa get COVID far less than average. Here are some reasons:
First, the whole continent is younger. Where they are older like South Africa and Egypt, there was far more disease. AIDS wiped out many older people so the average age is around 30. And there are very few elderly people.
Second, Africans do not have a weight issue like Africans in Europe and especially the US. Being obese raises your rate of having a bad outcome from COVID by 300%
African countries can not get vaccinated like other countries. Many are too poor to refrigerate the vaccines. So they have used anti-virals. Which have worked.
African death rates are high to begin with. Also their record keeping is low. So, COVID will not decrease the life expectancy much and there aren’t many to record how people die.
And for those who think China did it on purpose. There are a million Chinese in Africa. They could have spread it there like they spread it to every other country that works closely with China. But China gave it to Europe and America. They need Africa. So they did not spread it to Africa early on. There were zero or practically zero cases in Africa for a long while. Then they started to pop up in Egypt and South Africa where there is more contact with Europe. China clearly gave it to Italy through the thousands of Chinese who work there.
there may be a lot of blood mutations there that are though to have evolved to deal with malaria such as thalassemia and g6pd. dont know if there have been any good studies to see how abnormal blood types like that handle covid 19.
i do know they were surprised early on at what happened in italy but some theorized it was because thalassemia people stayed home