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Conference: Regional Governance as Experience. New Perspectives on Politics and Sustainability (Libreville)

Regionalism has long been an integral part of governance in Africa. Upon gaining independence, African states established numerous regional and sub-regional institutions to advance their interests. These range from well-known organisations such as the...

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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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Decolonising Academia at MIASA and MECAM: Academic Freedom and Research Ethics in Dialogue (Authors: Julius Dihstelhoff & Agnes Schneider-Musah)

On October 10, 2024, experts from the Merian Centres for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) and the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) gathered at the Legon Campus of the University...

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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...