Urbanization and political change in Africa

K Hoelscher, N Dorward, S Fox, T Lawanson… - African …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Urbanization is transforming the human and political geography of Africa. While a growing
body of research explores the urban dimensions of clientelism, contentious action, and …

Driving together: Shared car journeys as research space

G Lynch - Qualitative Research, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper introduces driving around with people in private cars as a research space to
which walking methods can be adapted and in which productive accidental ethnography …

The battle for Central: ethnicity, urbanization and citizenship in Kenya's 2022 general elections

N Cheeseman, M Kamencu - Journal of Eastern African Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In Kenya's 2022 general elections, presidential candidate William Ruto did something
unusual–he dominated the vote in the heartlands of one of his main political rivals, President …

Expanding profit and power. The National Union of Road Transport Workers in Nigeria

L Fourchard - Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article explores the power exercised by the National Union of Road Transport Workers
(NURTW) over the transport workers in Lagos (Nigeria). With the privatisation of transport …

Linear Economy Wolf in Circular Economy Sheep Clothing: Ride-Hailing in Ghana

FG Boateng, S Appau, KT Baako - Circular Economy Strategies and the …, 2023 - Springer
Many sharing economy business models claim to be circular economy (CE) allies. They
claim to create platforms for enabling need-based access to–instead of ownership of …

Economies and favours: What's in a word?

N Makovicky, D Henig - economic sociology. perspectives and …, 2022 - econstor.eu
People do things with words. Metaphors, jokes, utterances, idioms and vernaculars are
basic elements of how people communicate, create their communities and organisations …

Corruption, language and popular agency: Review of Daniel E. Agbiboa, They Eat Our Sweat. Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria …

F Bellentani - 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In the common sense, corruption is the misuse of public power for a private gain. It occurs
when individuals or organisations, such as governments or business, abuse their position of …

Theme-Based Book Review: Reform

CL Atkinson - Public Organization Review, 2023 - Springer
This theme-based book review considers four recent titles related to reform: They Eat Our
Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria, by Daniel E …

Urban Taxi Slogans: The People's Arts

DE Agbiboa - African Arts, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
Those of us who live and work in Africa know firsthand that the ways in which societies
compose and invent themselves in the present—what we could call the creativity of practice …

Interrogating the Yahoo-Yahoo Menace: An Analysis of Moral Decadence, Poverty, and Unemployment In Nigeria

TL Ojolo, SB Singh - Journal of African Films and Diaspora Studies, 2023 - journals.co.za
Cybercrime has grown to be very popular in Nigeria. This is not necessarily due to the fact
that it is a criminal act that defrauds innocent victims and corporations of millions of dollars …