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Negotiating LPG in Urban Transportation: Taxi Drivers Stepping on the Gas in Accra and Bobo-Dioulasso

In Negotiating LPG in Urban Transportation, Kanazoé and Nabos explore how taxi drivers in Accra and Bobo-Dioulasso have turned domestic LPG into a lifeline amid rising fuel costs, navigating ambiguous or prohibitive regulations through ingenuity and informal networks, revealing the clash between state policies and grassroots survival strategies in West African cities.

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IFG 10: Urban transformation pathways, sustainable governance, and urban resilience building

Urban transformation, sustainable governance, and urban resilience building are critical to the sustainable development of cities in sub-Saharan Africa, as they have to navigate rapid urbanization and the challenges of climate change.  IFG 10‘s research showed that farming in green...

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Politike Bishimbo: Humour, Statehood and Social Ambivalence in the 2023 elections of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Author: Silke Oldenburg with Christian Mwemezi Ngangura)

The journalists ask, “Shako, who are you going to vote for?”. Shako responds, “In the presidential election, I will vote for my father; in the national election, I will vote for my mother; and...