The impact of COVID 19 on food security in Africa has been among the most widely discussed subjects since the first cases of COVID-19 in Africa broke in February 2020. Most of the narratives were alarming. The headlines put Africa at the brink of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis caused by the triple challenges of economic, health, and food security crises. The reports were focused primarily on policy analysis calling for top-down policy decisions. Real, human-centric, stories from the ground were rare to find. The result grossly hampered our understanding of the implications of the policy decisions on the day to day life of small food producers in Africa. This compilation of stories offers broader contextual insight into how COVID-19 has devastated the lives of rural and urban small-scale food producers. It shows how various governmental responses to contain its spread impacted largess sections of the population across the food chain. To this end, AFSA collected grassroots stories from 18 African countries by collaborating with 21 journalists. Each journalist produced two feature stories focusing on the impact of COVID-19 on small-scale food producers, marginalized sections of the community, workers, and traders of the local food web. This summary reviews the 40 stories gathered under the title African Coronavirus Stories: Perspectives on COVID-19 Challenges to Livelihoods and Food Systems. It intends to capture how the COVID-19 virus has changed life for African family farmers and small-scale food producers by highlighting its impacts on the overall food systems and key players in the food chain.