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Conferences, Lectures, Roundtables / Migration & Mobility / Reports / Topics

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Report: The relationship between migration research and policy practice in Africa: policy dialogue (Author: Flora Kiefert)

Are migration researchers and practitioners working in their separate ”silos”? This question was raised by a representative of the German development cooperation (GIZ) at a policy dialogue on “The relationship between migration research and...

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African Cities / Blogposts Fellows / Fellows & PIs Reflections / Landownership / Slide

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Land Tenure and “Right to the City” in Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire: What do “Forum Shopping” and “Intersectionality” Got to Do with It?

Land tenure in West Africa has increasingly been shaped over the decades by various conflicts rooted in persistent social inequalities and legal pluralism (Firmin-Sellers 2000, Berry 2009). Much of the urban growth is taking...

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Conferences, Lectures, Roundtables / Conflict & Peace / Early Career Workshops / Knowledge Production / Reports / Slide / Topics

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Conference (MIASA-PAPA): Sustainable Governance in Africa. The Usefulness of the Concept of Crisis

This conference marked the second collaboration between MIASA and the Pilot African Postgraduate Academy (PAPA), funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation and led by Prof. Mamadou Diawara, MIASA’s director (Germany) and Prof. Elisio Macamo...

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Conferences, Lectures, Roundtables / Reports / Slide / Sustainable Governance

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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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African Cities / Blogposts Fellows / Fellows & PIs Reflections / Slide

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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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African Cities / IFGs / Overview MIASA / Sustainability Transformation / Topics

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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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African Cities / Blogposts Fellows / Fellows & PIs Reflections / Topics

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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...