NEW: #Article Exploring the street economy in African cities: A review of practices, regulatory policies, and challenges of urban governance in Ghana. buff.ly/3BGpbTK T&F Social Sciences and Humanities @JRE_UAA Urban Affairs Association @DrBHanlon Barnabas_addi Clifford Amoako Gideon Abagna Azunre, Owusu Amponsah

I am so glad to share that our forum paper on slum photography and the politics of spatial representation was published today in Geoforum! Enjoy the provocative piece!! doi.org/10.1016/j.geof…. #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter

Anyone going to Johannesburg for the African Urbanisms conference WITS-TUB-UNILAG URBAN LAB Wits School of Architecture and Planning ?? Catch me at Session 25. I will be discussing what ‘participation’ means when it’s deployed in participatory slum upgrading programs 🤗

Amazing piece 🔥👌

Beyond grateful to have been able to share preliminary findings of my PhD research project WITS-TUB-UNILAG URBAN LAB African Urbanisms conference… Leaving with so many thought-provoking ideas on how we can best shape the future of African cities

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I am happy to share that our paper on policy and governance responses has been published in Environment and Planning C: Politics & Space. The paper is available open access: doi.org/10.1177/239965…. #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #urbanstudies

Academics will organise a workshop hosted in the global north, attended by the global north, and citing the global north, and call it "connecting with the global south"

Thank you 2024… Up 2025. Happy New Year my people 🥳🙏

Happy to share my latest co-authored piece with led by my mentor Prof. Owusu Amponsah Many thanks to Concordia University University for covering the Open Access fees sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Finally hit the 500th citations mark after 6 years - Quincentennial. Grateful to my mentors and collaborators for their intellectual generosity 🥳🥳

Check this Workshop out if you’re a PhD student. It’s an incredible opportunity to reflect on your methodology! I benefitted immensely from it two years ago :)

If you want a t-shirt these are available too. These are my current settings 😊 😊

Congratulations Dr. Sunjay Mathuria (Sunjay ) on an outstanding viva!!!

Akon's $6 billion futuristic "Wakanda" mega-city in Senegal, Africa, has reportedly been abandoned

Before the big show with the broskis #scsw2025 archives These moments 🤌🏾

Happy to share my latest co-authored piece with Patrick Brandful Cobbinah on the place of informality in globalizing African cities. Full access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08…

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