This paper considers the foundations of contemporary African urban economies and how
these intersect with the evolution of urban politics, carving a route through a wide range of …

Drawing on a case-study from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, we explore who governs formal
property in African cities, how they make formal property legitimate and functional, and the …

Abstract Like many African countries, Ghana operates a pluralistic land tenure system–
customary and state ownership exist conterminously. Land-use planning is largely a state …

Property as a legal assemblage works to produce and imagine space according to a
dominant set of norms and principles, thereby casting an imagined projection into multiple …

For decades, environmental justice scholars and activists in North America have sought to
document and explain the fact that marginalized people and communities are …

Though post-colonial governments vowed to ban chiefs, they reconstructed governance
systems to accommodate traditional governance structures due to the primacy of the …

This study allowed us to understand the challenges and issues related to the problem of
planning and land management in Sotouboua, Central Region, Togo, through the prism of …

Over the past years, eThekwini municipality (also known as Durban) has emerged as an
exemplar city for biodiversity and climate change action and also for the localization of the …

A focus on housing illuminates multiple dimensions of African cities. In particular housing
issues shed light on matters of politics and of power, as well as everyday practices, and thus …

This working paper is a synthesis of findings from seven city domain studies which
employed the African Cities Research Consortium's (ACRC's) conceptual framework to …