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Category: African Cities

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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...

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Rapports marchands au Grand Marché de Bamako – Entre socialisation et économie?

Le marché se trouve au cœur de constructions théoriques économiques. Cependant, contrairement à la conception purement économique, la loi de l’offre et de la demande, le processus marchand est complexe et multiforme et « l’économie...

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“Ancestors’ Land Does No Longer Exist?” Negotiations of Belonging and Ownership in the Context of Urban Land Governance in Dakar (Senegal)

Land governance has been for many years one of the most burning political, economic, social and cultural issues across the African continent. This blogpost shares some reflections on the concepts of belonging and ownership...

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Religious Diversity and Modes of Coexistence in Urban Africa, MIASA Working Paper 2023(1)

This Working Paper introduces research results of MIASA’s IFG 7 project titled “Religious Diversity in Urban West Africa: Exploring Modes of Coexistence for Sustainable Governance”. The project started with the broader objective of examining...