Abstract Sub-Saharan African cities like Kampala face challenges with rapid urbanization
and impacts of climate change. These challenges have exacerbated the struggle to provide …

This book investigates the relationship between mining, mine closure and housing policy in
post-apartheid South Africa, using concepts from new institutional economics and …

The youth employment crisis in sub-Saharan Africa's towns and cities is among the region's
top development priorities. High rates of youth under-and unemployment create significant …

Research in Bangladesh reveals the limitations of actor‐oriented frameworks for
understanding urban poverty that assess household livelihoods on the basis of a …

In recent years, cities in countries such as Syria, Ukraine, and Somalia have been sites of
major incidents of armed conflict. Such violence has led observers to note that armed conflict …

Rapid urbanisation in the global South has prompted attention to the causes and dynamics
of urban violence. Yet, much research tends to either analyse urban violence without …

This article draws on in-depth fieldwork in Lagos, Nigeria, to explain the changing role of
motor-park touts (agberos) in urban transport. Situating the emergence of agberos within the …

Accounts of corruption in Africa and the Global South are generally overly simplistic and
macro-oriented, and commonly disconnect everyday (petty) corruption from political (grand) …

b” CLASSIFY, EXCLUDE, POLICE 'Laurent Fourchard's deep, first-hand knowledge of the
history and contemporary politics of Nigeria and South Africa forms the basis of an insightful …

This article spotlights Maasai ethnic identity in Tanzania as a site of social, cultural, and
political transformations triggered by urbanization and market liberalization. Important social …