It’s a mashup! We join up with the Governance Uncovered podcast from Jeffrey Paller and the Governance and Local Development Policy Institute to talk to Prince Guma, Astrid Haas, and Patience Mususa. Each is an expert on the urbanization of the continent.
We respond to Jeffrey’s recent article in This Week in Africa, “Five Trends that will Shape Urban Africa in 2023,” which highlights:
- Innovative forms of affordable housing
- Gentrifying neighborhoods
- Heightened focus on emerging cities
- Confronting flooding
- The impact of big tech
Prince Guma is a researcher of cities, infrastructures and technologies in eastern Africa. Astrid Haas is an independent urban economist supporting cities and has worked extensively with city governments across Africa, the Middle East and Asia. And Patience Mususa is senior researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala.
Books, Links, & Articles
- Young Feminists Network (YFN)
- “Five Trends that will Shape Urban Africa in 2023.” by Jeffrey Paller
- Politics and the Urban Frontier: Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa by Tom Goodfellow
- Gizo-Gizo!: A Tale from the Zongo Lagoon by Emily Williamson
- Seeing Like a City by Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift
- Disrupted Urbanism: Situated Smart Initiatives in African Cities by Nancy Odendaal
- Fragments of the City: Making and Remaking Urban Worlds by Colin McFarlane
- Rethinking Smart Urbanism: City-Making and the Spread of Digital Infrastructures in Nairobi by Prince Karakire Gura