Associate Fellow, SPERI, & Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies and International Development, University of Sheffield
The ‘plugging’ of infrastructure gaps through international finance can generate new problems for African cities as seen in Ethiopia, Nigeria and Uganda.
Exploring how capital intersects with contemporary urban forms can help to bring Africa to its rightful position at the forefront […]
Africa is undergoing an urban revolution which is taking place in the context of a sea change in global geopolitics […]
Urban informal transport acts as a barometer of political trajectories in Africa and exposes tensions between democracy and worker organisations […]
Rwanda’s government works hard to maintain a balancing act between the complex range of political and economic factors that underpin […]
In the UK and in developing countries enormous wealth is generated from property. New approaches and action is needed to […]
Placing property taxation, redistribution and social justice in an ethical context Two weeks ago I was in Addis Ababa at […]
African governments, and their international advisors, need to join up their thinking more effectively when pursuing ‘big urban reform’ Tax […]
The vision of a service-sector led ‘developmental state’ drives the government of Rwanda, but is proving hard to sustain Amid […]