The above comments are several dumb takes. Also, reports are not the same as actual outcomes. The buck stops with excess mortality.
In my visits to Africa since the Pandemic started, they are taking COVID quite seriously, with lots of measures against it. And not ignoring it at all (1).
Ironically for your assumptions, this may be a result of cultural selection: this isn't their first infectious disease to deal with as a public health issue in living memory. Not to say that there's no COVID there, people are still getting it, people that I know there have had it, varying number of times with varying severity.
1) YMMV, Africa is vast, I only visited one corner of it. Blanket statements about "Africa" are false somewhere.