Editor's note: Raven Saunders uses they/them pronouns. This article has been updated throughout. With all the angst about mask mandates and mask wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic, we can be ...

From masks worn to prevent the spread of COVID-19 to Hong Kong protesters wearing Guy Fawkes masks during anti-China protests, 2020 is a time of masks. Yet in much of Africa, such face coverings masks ...